My 4th great grandfather's discovery page only shows two of the five wives he had
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My 4th great granfather's discovery page only shows two of t he five wives he had and of course the one not shown is who I descend from. How do I get it to show all the wives and children?
https://history.churchofjesuschrist.org/chd/individual/alfred-randall-1811
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Two ways.
The easy way is to edit the URL of any Discovery page to substitute the PID of a profile you want to see there, and press return. That will force the creation of that new page.
The better way is to improve the profiles so that they meet the quality criteria for Discovery pages. Polish them up and presto, they get a fresh Discovery page.
By Discovery page, I mean the pages at https://ancestors.familysearch.org; the site you linked may have other processes.
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@dontiknowyou, Lynette was asking how to get an already-existing discovery page to show different/more spouses, not how to get a discovery page for someone. (And I'm not at all certain that "quality" of a profile plays any part whatsoever in whether the automation chooses to generate one or not.)
She mentions that it "only" shows two of five, which is highly surprising to me, because I've only ever seen it show a single spouse, no matter how many there were -- and in fact, looking at Alfred Randal's Discovery page myself (https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KWNN-5FW/alfred-randall-1811-1891), I only see one wife. It is one of those little annoyances in my life that I haven't been able to figure out how that single spouse is chosen, and therefore how -- or if -- it can be changed (short of removing the relationships to spouses that I don't want it to show). It seems to pretty clearly correspond to the "default preferred" spouse, i.e. the one that is marked as "preferred" when someone who has never looked at the profile before visits it, but this fails to answer my question about the criteria for the choice.
@Lynette Day, long story short: you can't. The Discovery page only ever shows a single spouse, no matter how many the person had. The only solution is to ignore that page for the utter junk that it is, and sign in to FamilySearch to look at the proper profile page.
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Hm. Were the Discovery pages always like that? I thought I have seen multiple spouses displayed.
Anyway, @Lynette Day, this discussion may not be relevant to your question about the LDS site.
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