Dead to living requests
Both my husband and I have recently found living individuals marked as deceased in Family Tree and have submitted the dead to living requests. As yet, there has been no response. Would someone be able to tell us if there is a backlog on these requests and what the wait time is?
IDs: GNWJ-82Y; G4HX-XT6
Thank you.
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Yes, there is a bit of a backlog. The 2 you reported have been done now. Sam ☺️
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Is there a reason you aren't fixing this yourself? I don't see where they are read only. Click edit on the death fact, click Living and click save.
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Hi, Gail.
We have made the requests -- but the FS staff are the only ones who can actually "fix" the problem. The deceased version of the person has to go back to the private space of the person who created the record.
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I have fixed an improperly deceased person by myself. As soon as I clicked save the whole person page disappeared. FS staff do not appear to be the only ones who can do this.
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Thank you, @Sam Sulser!
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I have had to do this, and I had to send a message to SLC. They responded and asked me to send them the address the person who I was claiming was not deceased. I assume they checked it out and it was adjusted. It was not a simple process, but we got it taken care of.
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All I can say is that was not my experience. This was at least a year ago, perhaps 2. Update: I just checked on the person who I changed from deceased to living, and it appears a copy of the person record has been added to my private space showing only the updates I made. I remember he had quite a few sources. I had found him referenced in an obit of one of his siblings and added that as a source. After that is when I had a phone conversation with one of his sisters and she told me he was getting ready to celebrate his 100th birthday and was very much alive. That is when I changed his record from deceased to living, and the person record disappeared. Now he is back, and the obit I added is the only source I can see. What odd behavior. I assume he has 2 person records at this point, the other being in the private space of whoever created him in the first place.
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@Gail Swihart Watson If you want to share the PID, I can look and see if I can find the one that had sources on it. No promises, but I will look. Sam 😉
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Sam Sulser Well, if he is still alive, or marked alive as he is in my private space, you will not find anything. Remember, this is about people being marked deceased who are living and correcting that. I changed him to living a while back and he disappeared. I do not have the original PID. I only have the one in my private space. Is that what you want?
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Enough of the people killing off living people. This mistake should result in banning of the poster of such horrible mistakes.
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Perhaps I wouldn't go quite that far, but there are certainly far too many examples of this type of error. It makes a mockery of FamilySearch's policy on privacy. I'd be interested in any statistics that confirm my feelings that adding sources / individuals relating to the US 1940 & 1950 census is a major factor here: far many of these people are bound to still be alive.
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