Clean up your tree

Over time, a Rootkin™ tree can pick up orphaned records — leftover relationships, photo tags, or memories that point at someone you've since deleted. The cleanup tool sweeps them up.

Walkthrough

  1. Open Settings → Maintenance and tap Clean Up Orphan Records.
  2. Rootkin scans the tree for records that reference a person who's already been deleted — a relationship row, a photo tag, or a voice memory linked to someone you removed.
  3. It removes only those loose ends. It never touches a person, photo, or memory that still has a valid subject — so it's safe to run any time.
  4. When it's done, Rootkin tells you what it cleaned up.
When to run it. Deleting a person now cleans up after itself automatically, so you rarely need this. It's most useful after a lot of edits, or after a GEDCOM import that left a few stray references behind.

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Last updated 27 May 2026