Moving a whole family in a tree on Ancestry

[Pottoka]

With help, I have found the mother, and the birth certificate, sans père, of my illegitimate 2 x great-grandfather, John Andrew, who went through life as John Gaunt, having been taken under his mother's husband's wing.

As I had always known him as John Gaunt, I had his "paternal line" in my tree, quite well researched and going quite a way back. Now I would like to leave that, as he did have half-siblings, but move his step-father to become just that - without undoing the whole flipping lot and starting all over again.

I was still of the opinion that the step-father was the actual father when I added the mother and her ancestors, which would have been the moment to create a sideways relationship; do the words "too late" ring any bells?

Does anyone know how I can add a biological father to John without disturbing the rest of my Ancestry tree, please?

[Pottoka]

This is my original post about John from years back when I thought that the person to find was the mother:

https://www.british-genealogy.com/fo...ighlight=Gaunt

John turned out to be Jane Andrew's son, living with her brother, William Andrew, and her sister, S. (Sarah), in Digby in 1851. Piece 2100; Folio 208; Page number 8. William is 29, born in Washingborough, Lincolnshire, England, in about 1822.

Pam "the Bonkers Moderator" Downes helped me no end with John then.

[Megan Roberts]

Does anyone know how I can add a biological father to John without disturbing the rest of my Ancestry tree, please?

On each person’s page at the top on the right hand side you will see a drop button titled “edit”. Click on that, and select “edit relationships”. Once there you will see the list of parents, spouces and children, and you add as many as you would like, and you described them in many different ways using the drop down box on the side of each person.

[Pottoka]

Megan, you are a star!

As soon as I saw your reply in my inbox, I opened Ancestry and, in a couple of clicks, it was done. I would never have thought it would be so easy, but then I've never investigated "Edit relationships". It'll probably be quite useful for those annoying times when I add a Census to someone with a child, and Ancestry puts all the children except that one as the children of the wife.

There's one difficulty left - finding out who he is! I've had to give him a name, so have called him Mr Unknown for now; I've already got an A. N. Other, to stop Ancestry giving me a useless hint about the putative father of an Irish ancestor. I've waded through the Lincolnshire Bastardy Bonds with no luck and will just have to hope for a result from DNA.

Thank you again for sorting my problem and reducing, ever so slightly, my technophobia.