I cannot edit details of names, births & deaths because the details don't show so no edit tab
I cannot edit details of names, births & deaths because the details don't show so no edit tab
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On the person page, can you see the Vitals section? Cherck that you have not flipped the little black arrow in the top right corner (marked by a red arrow).
You should be able to edit by clicking the pencil icons (marked with a blue arrow). These should be visible whether or not you have toggled Detail View off (marked by a black arrow).
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Or do you mean in a historical record rather than a Family Tree profile? Not all records can be edited. If you post a link to where you are trying to edit and explain exactly what you are trying to do, you will get the question you are actually asking answered.
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Yes, I mean in a historical record. Graham Buckell answered yesterday and showed me the problem which was very easily fixed. All OK now, thanks.
Robert.
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@Robert Saunders, please excuse the following pedantry, but words are important.
What Graham explained (and used his mod powers to include a screenshot of) is not a historical record. In fact, his answer made no mention of or reference to any historical records. That screenshot is part of the Details page of a Family Tree profile. Profiles are made by us (modern, not historical) users of FamilySearch's website. Hopefully, we base those profiles on evidence from historical records, and even more hopefully, we reference the records where we found said evidence (by citing our sources and explaining our reasoning), but profiles can (and unfortunately do) exist without any such reference.
What Gordon was referring to as "historical records" was documents created in the past, recording some event or fact. FamilySearch has an incomprehensibly-huge collection of images of these, from all around the globe. Some small fraction of those images have been made easier to find by the process of indexing, which enters a volunteer's (or nowadays, computer's) reading of a few key elements of the document into a computer database. It is sloppy usage to equate this indexed database (the finding aid) with the documents themselves, but it is ubiquitous, because the software can only work with machine-parseable data, and until computers get much, much better at reading handwriting, the index is what's machine-parseable.
Indexes inevitably get things wrong. (Handwriting of all stripes is only fully legible if you know exactly what it says.) Users of FamilySearch can correct some of those errors, but the process (software) for doing so is itself error-ridden, sometimes resulting in disappearance of the index entry instead of correction of its errors. There are also indexes on FS where the gremlin in the index-correction software is a moot point, because the collection isn't correctable. This is true for any entry for which the image isn't public/online, and also for some indexes where the contract with the record custodian doesn't allow corrections.
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