Research hints problem and unable to add a person as deceased
I am running across two issues that I haven't encountered before. One is that I am getting some research hints for people where the document is showing as already attached to the person. One was a census where everyone was attached already but for the attached people it has the detach option but with an exclamation point above it. I don't know what that means. I guess the exclamation point means there is an error? I have encountered this on a few different documents.
Now, I am trying to add someone from a 1950 census who is not in the tree. I put in their birth and death info and then marked them as deceased. I know they have passed as they have a findagrave.com page. But when I try to add the person, I get a message saying "Please select Living or Deceased, above, before creating a new person." Yet I have a blue mark next to deceased.
Here is the PID for one of the people on a 1910 census that if you click to review will show everyone as already attached but with exclamation points: MZQB-KM4.
And here is the PID of the father on the 1950 census with the son (who has the same name) I am trying to add: L5VN-J5N.
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That 1910 census is attached to Ethel Lavonia Benefield L1SN-3LK. The triangle with an exclamation point is an indicator that the record is already attached to another profile. If you hover your mouse over the triangle, you will see a message with that information.
Sometimes, that means there is a duplicate that needs to be merged. Or, it may mean that someone has attached the record to the wrong family. In any case, it means that more research needs to be done.
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I'm even more confused about that 1910 census now. I see where it says it is attached to Ethel Lavonia Benefield as Aine says. However, when I look at her sources It says under the 1910 census that it is attached to Ethel Maie Archer. I don't get how a record can be attached to someone's sources and yet say it is attached to a different person. I've never seen that before. I will try and see if I can figure out what is going on.
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Looking at this situation, the main trouble is that 1910 census hint for Ethel is wrong.
The hint is suggesting that you attach the census record for Ethel Archer whose maiden name was Benefield and who is the widow of William Archer to the Family Search profile for Ethel Archer whose maiden name was Archer and who married Grover Chambers. The hinting is wrong because the census record uses married names and the profiles show maiden names.
The source list for Ethel Benefield does not say the source is attached to Ethel Maie Archer, the title of the source just states that the source is for Ethel Archer, but this is her married name and she really is Ethel Benefield.
You just need to mark this hint as Not A Match for Ethel Maie Archer.
It is very important to keep in mind that Hints are wrong at least 3% of the time.
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I see now that the 1910 census isn't actually attached to Ethel Maie Archer. It is another similar record that is being referenced that is correctly attached to her. I just got confused for a bit. I did know that the census hint was for the wrong person as I was reviewing it but I was just confused by the exclamation points as I had never seen them before. I marked the hint as not a match.
As for not being able to mark new people being added as deceased, I just added them as still living and then marked them as deceased and added their death info afterwards.
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For your second problem, of being unable to add a person from the 1950 census as deceased, I think what it's actually trying to tell you is that for adding people from recent sources, you must put something in the "reason" box. (I usually put an exclamation mark, but that's because for me, it almost always comes up for the parents in early-20th-century marriage records, meaning that it's asking me why I know that a person is deceased who was born in the 1800s.)
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