How do I make a profile for someone?

RhondaGardner

I've found records for a man born in the 1800's but can't attach them anywhere because there's no profile/acct for him. How do I make one for him?

Graham Buckell

If the person is linked to someone on your tree, simply link Add Spouse, Parent or Child as appropriate. If there is no link currently available, then go to Recents

Scroll to the bottom and click Add Unconnected Person.

RhondaGardner

Thank you! I've worked on Family Search a lot and have never known how to do that before.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

During one of the previous discussions of the less-than-intuitive location of "Add Unconnected Person", I had a thought: why are we trying to re-invent the wheel here? Where do other genealogy websites put this function?

Turns out, they don't put it anywhere.

Yup: other sites don't have a single-step method by which to add an unconnected person. You have to add a spurious relative for someone and then get rid of the false relationship. I'm sure there are many people who do the same thing here, because (unsurprisingly) they don't think to look at the bottom of Recents, and/or they make assumptions based on their experience on those other sites. Your question got me wondering, though: would there be a logical place for this function somewhere in the source-attaching process?

FS just dropped a present in my lap in the form of 40 more years of church registers for my paternal line, with indexes, so I've been doing a lot of exploration of said process in the past two days — but I still don't know how other people do it, or which direction FS expects or intends people to approach it from. (Well, I expect the answer to the latter is "yes", but anyway.)

So, a question in return for yours: where did you look for this function? Presumably, you were looking either at a search results list, or at an index detail page, but did you click one of the "triggers" for Source Linker, or was this before that?

Graham Buckell

On Ancestry I get around the problem by finding a record of the person and using that to create a new person in one of my trees.

RhondaGardner

Julia, since learning how to do this from Graham’s answer I’ve been able to start new profiles to Italian ancestors who were immigrants with my gg grandfather, but cousins. I’ve never known their parent’s names. That helped a lot.

I never would have found it at the bottom of the recent search list. I always click on Search & categories under it. That would be a better place for people to find it.