Family Echo Q&A - Recent questions

how do I share the tree with other/

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:25:52 +0000

How do I add marriage dates and locations?

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:16:47 +0000

How to add family that is already in the family tree (as someone's partner)?

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:43:24 +0000

If you want to add partner you have a choice to add someone that already exist inn the family tree. Then lets say my distant cousin married someone, and that person turns out to be another distant cousin of mine from another great grandpa. How can i connect between the two, do i have to delete my cousin partner then add it again after adding the related relationship?

How do I add a second user

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:22:52 +0000

How do I delete a family memeber?

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:44:40 +0000

My parents are showing as married when they are divorced. How can I fix this?

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 21:54:21 +0000

I entered them as a divorced couple which is a dotted line in my system but they are showing as a thick line which means married. I have tried changing them to married, and back to divorced, and refreshed but no dice.

removing connections that split the tree?

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:41:46 +0000

I wanted to add a full other family to one of my family trees, while this family is unrelated in any way beyond a few friendships, it's important for my work and easier to have them in the same place. I did this by choosing a random person and making them the 'friend' of the furthest-back person I know of in this family, which for me made it easier to follow the family tree all the way down instead of working off the youngest and going up.

The problem is that this random person is born about a hundred years after the person I made them the friend of dies. It annoys me to have them connected, but even though I have made people later on in the family connected to others in the original tree, I can't remove the connection. Is there any way to solve this?

Is there a way to add multiple photos (like a multiple photos tab) that shows more photos other than one picture?

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:51:35 +0000

ADDITIONAL GROUP FAMILY PHOTO

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:41:07 +0000

In addition to individual photo, can we ask for family photo and get it displayed alongside the individual photo,
to clarify
i submit my own photo
and a photo of my own family

How do I update photos on the family tree

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:57:34 +0000

How do I update photos on the family tree, I can't see an option to do this when looking under a family member profile ?

Can I share a family tree from a deceased person's PoV?

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000

Sooo, right now I am in a rabbit hole creating a large family tree about various nobles throughout the ages and consider sharing it with a few friends. As you could guess, basically everyone on this family tree is deceased (because of course Edward the Confessor didn't live to be a thousand years old). When I try to share the family tree (clicking on the "Share" button while having selected i. e. Edward the Confessor), the following message appears:

You cannot share the family with Edward who is marked as no longer living. Please try clicking someone else on the tree.

Well, I tried, and learnt that I can only share the family tree when clicking on a person who is currently alive (which are ... approximately ten people in this tree, as I like the middle ages). Of course, I can share this way (and I can mark a dead person as alive, copy their link via "Share" button, share it with my friends and set the desired person as deceased again) but I am curious if there is any option that allows me to share directly from a deceased person's box?

Add child to existing family tree

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:17:43 +0000

Add child to existing family

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:10:20 +0000

can I invite a family member to edit

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:40:20 +0000

How do I delete romantic relationships?

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:28:52 +0000

Can we have in relationships a option for widow and widower?

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:49:00 +0000

I would like to be able to set relationship for widows and widowers, at the moment the only way I make it work is using other or making them ex-partners. Thank you.

how do change a picture

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:07:44 +0000

how i change a picture i uploaded the wrong persons picture

How do I delete a child from a set of parents?

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:43:57 +0000

Is there a way to make non-biologically related people be Aunt/Uncle and Niece/Nephew?

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:42:39 +0000

You know how the parents of a child can sometimes almost declare someone is the Aunt/Uncle of their child even though they aren't biologically realated? I want to know if you can do that on Family Echo.

Thank you in advance for any answer I may get, I hope you have a wonderful day (or night, I don't judge)

One one of my trees the parents are not centered on the tree, can I fix that?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:29:11 +0000

Can I add a title or heading such as Fox family?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:26:16 +0000

How do I see the written relation between the members on the tree?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:48:24 +0000

For example, I want the tree to be in list format:

Jane is brother to John

Jane is cousin to Joe

Is there a way to print each child and their family individually?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:21:04 +0000

We have a very large family so the family tree is very big. I would like to print each of the 8 children and their families individually as separate sheets for our family reunion. Is there a way to do this?

What would be the print settings to print an entire tree as a banner about 4'x2'?

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:16:59 +0000

McAfee Spam Pop Up

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:09:58 +0000

Is anyone else getting the McAfee Spam while working within Family Echo. From everything I have search, this is SPAM and is not a legitimate scan. I have not clicked on any of the links but it happens every single time I am in Family Echo and to get rid of it I have to close my browser and start over. I have googled this and was told to reset my browser, which I did but the problem still persists. I have about 30 seconds to work on a family tree before the McAfee Pop Up hits and then I have to shut down the system.

how to import gedcom

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:40:36 +0000

How do I email my family tree that is saved?

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:01:16 +0000

My tree is saved but I can't send it by email to family members? How do I do this?

how do i save a tree and return to it later

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:03:21 +0000

Hello, I began my tree and registered with your website. I continued my tree but then hit the wrong button and went back a screen to the registration page. On going back to my tree all the relatives i had added afetr registering were lost. How do i save a tree so i do not lose further data? Also can i come back at a later date and pick up where i left off?

Can you add footnotes

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:14:33 +0000

What is intended to be recorded in the box labeled "Given at birth:"?

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:06:55 +0000

Do middle names and initials also get recorded in the "Given Names:" box?

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:05:46 +0000

How do I see how two members of the family are related to each other not just to the person who started the tree?

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:07:28 +0000

When printing the family tree, is there a way too change the font and to increase the font size?

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:17:45 +0000

how cancel a person from the tree?

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:21:02 +0000

PHOTOS ARE NOT BEING DISPLAYED IN THE TREE.

Sun, 31 May 2026 13:36:49 +0000

Is it possible to move individual boxes as displayed

Sun, 31 May 2026 01:25:54 +0000

My family tree showing only direct ancestors contains (so far) 47 individuals via 4x grandparents. Three of the ancestor lines are quite neatly arranged, but the fourth has the boxes staggered out to one side.

I would like to arrange this fourth line the same way the other three are arranged so as to be able to print them all on one page. Apart from which it looks very untidy as it is now. I could capture the graphic, then use Photoshop to move the stray elements into position, but doing it within the family tree software would be a lot easier; especially as this would have to be re-done each time I add new elements.

Is it possible to arrange this?

Would really appreciate ability to edit relationships color labels/connecting lines colors

Sat, 30 May 2026 12:22:38 +0000

Either individual relationships colors or relationships groups, either will be appreciated.

How can I generate a PDF of the complete tree with 2 or more pages so I don't have to keep cutting the tree?

Fri, 29 May 2026 10:59:30 +0000

How do i import a tree

Thu, 28 May 2026 23:07:55 +0000

How do I begin a descendant tree starting from my grandparents

Thu, 28 May 2026 19:10:37 +0000

Can I reorder siblings without knowing date of birth?

Thu, 28 May 2026 09:55:13 +0000

As the program asked, I started from myself and worked up and out through the generations to build out the family tree. However my ancestor was not the first child of their parents and if I add other siblings without knowing their date of birth they appear after my ancestor in the tree, not in order of birth.
Is there a way to reorder the siblings without deleting all the info added already or added an incorrect birth year just to place them properly.

I had over 60 People on my family tree and refreshed and lost everthing....

Thu, 28 May 2026 03:07:32 +0000

I have been adding my new family tree for the last days and the top conner and saved many times and it said all things were saved but I did a restart and signed back in and everthing is now gone! is there anything to fix this... or do I need to add all the information manually again

HOW TO PRINT ALL THE INFORMATION VISIBLE TO READ?

Wed, 27 May 2026 16:28:30 +0000

Sharing the tree with set viewing settings

Wed, 27 May 2026 11:15:54 +0000

Hello! I would like to send this to my family as a whole and still allow it to be interactive (ideally put it on our website), but i am finding that when i try to share the link it has to be for one specific person and my viewing settings are not saved. Is the only way to have these settings show by printing the document?

Stammbaum einer andern Person in meinen Importieren

Tue, 26 May 2026 14:29:52 +0000

Differenciate between non-biological relationships?

Sat, 23 May 2026 18:07:37 +0000

As the question says, does anyone know how to show the difference between adoption, foster, step-parent, and god-parents? It would be useful in my current project.

When ever I click on certain people zoom in zoom out bar is not working.

Sat, 23 May 2026 15:32:33 +0000

When ever I click on certain people zoom in zoom out bar is not working. I am also not able to see the family tree from that person's view. How can I fix that?

How can I print pictures as part of the tree?

Tue, 19 May 2026 09:28:46 +0000

Searching for Specific People

Tue, 19 May 2026 06:39:47 +0000

Is there a way to search for all of the single people in my family tree? Not specifically single, but along the lines of searching for only married, divorced, dead, alice, ect ect.

Just being able to specifically search for these types of people.

How do I make two family trees side by side and be able to conect them?

Mon, 18 May 2026 20:54:27 +0000

Im trying to make 2 family trees or more side by side so that eventually I can conect them, but i cant do so without them being attached.