How Can I Change Info in the Life History?
The information in my gr grandmother's Life History is not the the same as that in her details. The birth place is wrong. Obviously, I can't correct it by changing the details since the details are already correct but the lift history is not. What can I do?
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Hi @SanofskyT - Welcome to FamilySearch Community and asking your question about the life history for your gr grandmother. There are a couple of ways that life histories are generated. On the person page, if you select the ABOUT tab, you will see a "Brief Life History of XXXXX". By default, this is a computer generated life history based on items on the details tab of the person page. Not sure why in your case the birth place is not right. Perhaps you have a difference between the displayed birth place and the standard birth place. Nevertheless, the other option is to write the life history yourself. Do this by selecting the DETAILS tab on the person page. Scroll the bottom of the page to the Brief Life History section. You can select to add a brief life history you write yourself. At the top of the page, there is a selection to publish the brief life history you have written. If you make that selection, the history you write will replace the computer generated history on the ABOUT tab. As a suggestion, you may want to copy the computer generated history and paste it into the life history on the DETAILS tab. You can edit to fit you needs, select to publish it and save it. Hope this helps. Below is a link to more detail.
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@SanofskyT, on your grandmother's Details page, hover your cursor over her birthplace. What does the tooltip say? Does it match the displayed place, or is it wrong?
In FamilySearch's Family Tree, every date and place entry has two values: the display value that you see on the Details page, and an associated background value that's the label for a computer-parseable database entry. The two values can be the same, but they're not required to be, allowing us to enter more detail in the display value than the database contains. However, this flexibility does come with a trade-off: it makes it possible for an incorrect background value to get associated with the display value, through carelessness, misunderstanding, or other error.
If the problem is, indeed, an incorrect background value (called a "standard" or "standardized" place in FS parlance), then fixing it does actually mean editing the birthplace. On the editing popup, first click in the displayed placename's field and then choose the top, reddish text in the drop-down to keep it as your display value.
Then click the little down-arrow next to the incorrect standard, and choose the correct place from the drop-down.
Now the correct place will show on those pages (such as the About page) that only show the background value for dates and places, and in the tooltips on the Details page or person summary card.
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