John Barr Drips GZRL-PWF is not deceased

donnabarr

My Husband's 1st Cousin once removed is not deceased. In the obituary of John's wife it says

"The time has come to say goodbye to Lois, my wife, my sweetheart companion and friend to the end. Lois passed on July 5, 2010 in Boise, Idaho with her husband John and lifetime best friend Rae Schiller, at her side."

His wife is Lois Lee Messerly L234-J1S

The paragraph of the obituary makes it sound like John died at the same time. but the obituary is clearly written by John. Also in looking at the headstone in FindaGrave and Billion Graves John is not deceased.

Please make John as living.

Sanra

@donnabarr

Thank you for using Community for your concern about a person who is living marked deceased. You will need to handle this issue on Family Tree, by marking the record for John Barr Drips as Living, which will get the attention of an administrator. The information below is taken from the article .

If you are not the only contributor:

1. Navigate to the person page of the individual who is living.
2. Click the death date, and then click Edit.
3. Click the circle labeled Living.
4. Enter how you know the person is still alive.
5. Click Save.
6. Enter an explanation for the system administrator who can review your request. Please provide this information:
   • Your relationship to the individual needing attention.
   • How you know the person is alive.
   • If possible, the living person's current physical address.
7. Click Submit.

A request now goes to FamilySearch Support. A system administrator reviews your request and takes appropriate actions. 

To read the entire article click the link below:

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-change-the-status-from-deceased-to-living-in-family-tree

Wishing you success in changing the record from deceased to living.

CDBurk

Hi @donnabarr

Thank you for creating this post about your husband's cousin.

Family Tree is designed to allow all users to create a request ticket to mark records from Deceased to Living right in the system, rather than having to work through a Support agent.

To create the ticket to have this resolved, sign into your account and go to the Vital Information for the record of John Barr Drips GZRL-PWF. Remove 2010 from the date field and click the radio button for living. In the reason statement explain that the headstone verifies that no death date has been added for John yet, indicating that he is still alive. You can also mention that he is obviously the person speaking in his wife's obituary and that she is the one who passed away in 2010.

When you click Save, a new popup generates which asks you to verify how you know the person of concern is living. Please explain in the popup how you know John is living and click Submit. When successfully submitted, the system provides you with the ticket number created from your report.

There is currently a backlog of these requests so it may take some time for it to be resolved, but you are notified when your request has been handled.

The following knowledge article from our Help Center provides these steps for you should you need to use it in the future. The article provides instructions for working in the web-based program as well as instructions for those who prefer to work with the mobile Family Tree app.

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-change-the-status-from-deceased-to-living-in-family-tree

Thank you for the investigation you did to try to determine whether both John and his wife passed away in 2010. Since you did not create John's record, when it is marked as living, it will appear in the private spaces of the person who created it so it may not be visible to you any longer.