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Sex for Infants that are dead and no sex listed.

Timothy Rorie Meeks
Timothy Rorie Meeks ✭
May 14 in Suggest an Idea

It is so frustrating when an infant dies and there is no sex listed, you must add a sex Unknown is not acceptable. Then people put a female and a male when that is not the case. Your adding a child that is not there. So for Infants that were born and no sex was listed Unknown would be nice.

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  • Brett .
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    May 14 edited May 14

    @Timothy Rorie Meeks

    Timothy

    Welcome to the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum.

    I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...

    Just in passing ...

    I am somewhat, confused, with your suggested enhancement ...

    Please be, aware; and, advised, that ...

    We can ALREADY "Add", an individual/person, into the "Family Tree" Part, of 'FamilySearch'; where, the 'Gender' is "Unknown" ...

    Pictorially ...

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    So ...

    As such ...

    So, that we may understand ...

    Question: Exactly WHAT is the problem/issue?

    Please explain/advise.

    'Thank You', in advance.

    Brett

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 14

    The problem, as reported here many times, is that putting Unknown for the child results in a permanent, non-dismissable data error. If the sex of the child can never be known, the record will have that permanent red blot that will someday lead someone to make something up just to get rid of it.

    The data error should be able to be dismissed.

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