How to remove a user's access from your Bloodline graph in MyBloodlines?

Sometimes you need to remove another user’s access to your bloodline graph — a profile was claimed by the wrong person, or a branch that was connected shouldn’t be anymore. There are two ways to do it, and they’re quite different in scope. Which one is right depends on whether you want to detach a single person or an entire branch.

Option 1: Initiate claim removal

A user’s access to the graph comes from a profile they’ve claimed — the profile that represents them and ties their access to their place in the bloodline. If you remove that claim, you remove the access that came with it.

So the first route is to initiate claim removal for that user’s profile. This detaches the person from the profile they’d claimed. The profile itself — the record of that individual in the graph — can remain in place; what goes away is that user’s ability to see and contribute through it. Use this when the person should no longer have access but still belongs in the family record as a recorded individual.

Option 2: Cut the relationship connecting their branch

The second route removes access by removing the connection. If a whole branch of the graph reaches your side only through one relationship, cutting that relationship detaches the branch — and everyone on it loses access to your side, just as you lose access to theirs. Use this when it’s not one person but an entire connected branch that should no longer reach into your graph.

This is relationship deletion, so it carries everything that comes with it: the moment you cut the link, the people on the other side lose access to your side’s people, stories, and photos (unless another relationship still connects the two sides). The full behavior is described in how to delete a relationship in MyBloodlines?.

The restriction that applies to cutting relationships

Claim removal targets a claim directly and isn’t bound by your line. But the second option — cutting a relationship — is, like all relationship deletion, allowed only along your own direct line of ancestors or descendants. You can detach a branch that connects through your direct line; you can’t reach off your line to sever a relationship between two of your collateral relatives. This is the same rule that keeps everyone confined to editing their own part of the shared graph — see permission boundaries in MyBloodlines.

Choosing between them

Reach for claim removal when the issue is a single person who shouldn’t have access but whose place in the record is fine. Reach for cutting the relationship when an entire branch is connected that shouldn’t be, and you intend to detach the whole thing. Because the second option revokes access for everyone across the cut and takes their stories and photos out of reach along with them, confirm that’s genuinely what you want before using it.

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