How to delete a person from your Bloodline Graph in MyBloodlines?

If you’re looking for a “delete person” button in MyBloodlines, there isn’t one — and that’s intentional. A person in the bloodline graph isn’t removed directly. Instead, they’re abandoned, and the system cleans up abandoned people on its own. It’s a small difference in mechanism that has a real reason behind it.

People are removed by cutting relationships, not by deleting them

Every person in the graph exists as a single canonical record, held in place by the parent-child relationships that connect them to the rest of the family. To take someone out, you don’t delete the record — you remove what’s holding them in place. You cut the relationship (or relationships) connecting them to the graph.

Once a person has no relationships left connecting them to anyone, they’re abandoned. Nothing reaches them anymore; they’re no longer part of anyone’s line. At that point the system removes them automatically. You don’t need to issue a separate delete — abandonment is the removal, and the cleanup follows from it. (This is the same mechanism behind what happens when a claimed profile is unclaimed and part of the graph is left unreachable, described in how to claim your profile and start recording.)

The catch: you can only cut relationships on your direct line

Because removing a person means deleting relationships, it inherits the same restriction that governs relationship deletion: you can only cut relationships that lie along your own direct line of ancestors or descendants. You can abandon a person who sits on your direct line by cutting the links that attach them to it. You cannot reach off your line to remove someone else’s relative — for instance, you can’t cut the link between your uncle and your cousin to remove your cousin, because that relationship isn’t yours to touch. The full rules, including what happens to access when a link is cut, are in how to delete a relationship in MyBloodlines?.

Before you abandon someone, remember what goes with them

Cutting the relationships that connect a person is a serious change to a shared graph. If those links were the only connection between two parts of the family, the people on the other side immediately lose access to everything across that link — people, stories, and photos alike. So removing one person can, depending on where they sit, close off a whole branch for the relatives on the far side of them. It’s worth confirming that the person is genuinely meant to be removed, and that they aren’t the sole bridge to relatives others still need to reach, before you cut them loose.

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