Living person deleted….
I had to recreate an account for Inez Vada Halcomb (born 1921) as the original account for her has disappeared. The only breadcrumbs left behind to show that she previously had an account are these orphaned tags (in Memories) that are no longer connected. These are from obits for a brother and sister. While Inez may have passed away there is not an account for a deceased person, either. See screenshots. How does this happen?
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If your title is correct, "Living person deleted" it means someone discovered Inez, who can only be visible to everyone if marked deceased. This someone thought she was living and marked deceased in error. They changed her status to living. The minute they changed her status to living, that record became visible to only the person who created it. The fact that the "ghost" tags remain is really a system bug. It should really leave no trace she was ever tagged.
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Do you have specific knowledge that you once had a living profile for Inez Vada Holcomb? Or are you just making an assumption based on what you see in the list of attached people for these memories?
A tag can look like the one for Inez Vada Holcomb for some different reasons:
- If someone (you or someone else) has tagged the person with a simple name, but has not attached it to a person in Family Tree, then the tag will look like that.
- If the tag was once connected to a Tree person, but someone has subsequently used the Detach from Family Tree option, then the tag will also look like that. That could have been done by anyone if the profile had been marked deceased, or by the creator of the tag, if it was for a living person's profile.
- Sometimes a Tree person is marked as deceased, but that person is still alive and someone requests that Support mark that person as living (or in some cases, the creator of that person can directly mark them as deceased). When that happens, any tags associated with that Tree person will look like this, because you no longer have permission to see the associated living Tree person, who is visible only to the person who created that person.
- If someone else has a living profile for a person and then uses that profile to tag a person in a memory, then you have no right to see the attached Tree person, but you can still see the tag.
Given what you have said, I'm guessing that the third option is most likely what happened in this case. And if so, everything worked exactly as it should (although that would imply that some user created a deceased profile for Inez when she was still alive, which was a mistake, but the mistake was properly corrected). If you want to create a living profile for Inez to be visible only to you, you can do that. But that's not necessary.
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Another interesting data point is that you can do a Google search for Inez Vada Holcomb. When you do, you see this search result:
Yet if you click on that link, you don't see Inez Vada Holcomb listed in the family. That seems to be a strong indication that Inez was marked as a deceased person in Family Tree at some point but now has been either deleted or -- much more likely -- marked as living. But Google is showing cached results that don't yet reflect the updated absence of Inez from the family.
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Yes, I absolutely positively created an account for Inez. I didn’t take a screenshot. I do not have the id number with that account. I did tag her in the two memories of her deceased siblings. These were linked to the original account.
I created an account for Inez and I created the tags. I added the sibling obits to their respective memories.
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Go to your Contributions-Private People: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/contributions/private and search for her name. If you have a record for her in your account, you will find it here.
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The only account listed under Private People is the one I recently created. The original one has vanished.
I think my best guess is likely to be what Gail said. I know that it is true that I did have her listed as deceased (temporarily), this was until I found her listed as surviving her siblings. She was also in a news article as the first 100 year to get a Covid vaccine in her area. Perhaps I was switching back and forth between living/deceased (assuming this is possible), and another person changed her to living and that profile is now invisible to me. Strange that the tags to her siblings obits were not retained.
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If the tags on the image were from a PID that is no longer visible to you, then there really shouldn't be any trace left when she was marked living. It is kind of a security issue that the "ghost" tags remained. If, however, the tags were left over from YOUR PID of her that is now marked living, that could mean it's just confused. I sometime think there are a lot of little crumbs not working correctly with the new person page. Nothing major, just little things.
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Gail…. Re: tags. These are tags I created, see screenshots. On the original PID.
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