Living people deceased in tree
I uploaded my GEDCOM. My record has me as deceased.
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@lwshenberger thank you for participating in the early release CET you tell me when you uploaded your GEDCOM to CET and which third-party vendor you used to create yourGEDCOM file?
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I uploaded my GEDCOM on April 17th using RootsMagic 10. My log in ID is lshenberger.
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@lwshenberger Thank you for that information. I have passed it on to the engineering team.
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When a Gedcom person does not have a Living or Deceased label our system has to use all the genealogical information to determine if there is anyway the person could be dead. It first looks for any death-like information (death, interment, burial etc). In the absence of that it then looks at all life data on the individual and one-hop relatives. if it finds anything that indicates a birth could have been within the last 110yrs it will mark the person as living. If not, it has been marking them as deceased.
Unfortunately, there are some users who do not realize that FamilySearch has some pretty robust technology to prohibit living data from ever leaking to unauthorized users, and they have removed much or all of the genealogical data on their living except the names. In this case the algorithms had nothing to work off of to determine Living/Deceased and have marked them as deceased.
Because of this, all future uploads will default to Living when a decease cannot be confirmed. This may produce some additional deceased persons marked as living, but it is a safer thing to do. .1
