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Creating a new person: marked as Living or Dead?

JonathanMBean
JonathanMBean ✭
January 4, 2022 edited July 16, 2024 in Family Tree

When creating a New Person who is less than 110 years old (based on census records), I assume that I should mark them as "Living" unless I specifically know of (or have records of) their death. Is this the correct procedure?

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  • JonathanMBean
    JonathanMBean ✭
    January 4, 2022

    Oh wait. Nevermind. I just found this.

    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-does-family-tree-determine-whether-a-person-is-living-or-deceased

    Answered my own question! :)

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    January 4, 2022

    If I didn't know for certain whether a person was deceased or living, I would only create a profile for him/her if it was needed as a connector between deceased people. That is, for example, if I had an obituary from a few decades ago listing the then-surviving children of the deceased, I'd only create profiles for the married ones, and even that only if I had some information about their in-laws. The rest of the information from the obituary would go in my offline family tree file.

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