A Family is a group of Person records. Person records are grouped into Families for two reasons:

1. To represent the social constructs of the Family within the church
2. To share information common to all members of the family -- things like address, phone number, email address, etc.

A person record doesn't have to belong to a family. Generally speaking, Family records should represent a spousal or parental relationship. A married couple, for instance, rperesents a Family. A single parent with a chlild would also represent a Family. However, a single person with no children would not have a Family record.

1. From the left menu, select Add a New Family
2. Complete the form. Note that you can insert up to six family members from directly from this form. Complete the individual line sfor each person, but only enter the last name if it differs from the last name of the Family record. All people entered in this manner will create a new Person record which will be assigned to the designated Family record.
3. Press Save when the form is complete.

First of all, don't.

But if you have to...

1. Filter for the desired family, and bring up the Family View.
2. Select "Delete this Record" (if this link doesn't appear, then either you don't have permissions to delete records, or the Family still has Person records assigned to it; you cannot delete a Family record until all Person records have been unassigned from it)
3. Confirm the deletion

See the Properties help topic.

See the Notes help topic.