How do I add a person in my family tree if I do not know anything about? Not even if he's living or
My mother Linda Broyles was married to Douglas Ray Edwards before she married my father Larry Hughes Sr. I have their divorce papers. I know absolutely nothing about him except his name and the year they were divorced. I added him on the family tree but I put deceased. Help.
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@Jennifer Richards Usually the divorce case includes where and when they were married. Are there additional divorce papers regarding their case that you could obtain? If not, do you have an estimate of when and where they were married? Perhaps a newspaper announcement of their marriage was published.
Update: Is this their marriage info?
Name: Douglas R Edwards
Event Type: Marriage
Event Date: 22 Aug 1969
Event Place: Newton, Texas, United States
Age: 20
Birth Year (Estimated): 1949
Spouse's Name: Linda F Broyles
Spouse's Age: 18
Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1951
Certificate Number: 089704
Affiliate County Code: 176
Citing this Record
"Texas Marriages, 1966-2010," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTYQ-56D : 6 December 2014), Douglas R Edwards and Linda F Broyles, 22 Aug 1969; citing Newton, Texas, United States, certificate number 089704, Vital Statistics Unit, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin.
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@Jennifer Richards
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Jennifer
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IF you are NOT certain if an individual/person is "Decesaed" or not (ie. You DO NOT have 'supporting' evidence of a "Death" record); THEN, you should have them in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" with the 'status' of "Living".
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With the 'status' of "Living", ONLY you can see them in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch"; as, they reside in you "Private Spaces" - NO other User/Patrons can see them.
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That is VERY "Important".
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How would you like to see yourself in "Family Tree" of "FamilySearch" as "Deceased" - of course, you would NOT.
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Just change the 'status' of "Douglas Ray EDWARDS" to "Living", until you find 'supporting' evidence of his "Death".
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I hope this helps.
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Brett
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For more information, please click on the link below for the knowledge document regarding adding a person to your tree in the Help Center.
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I do not wish to appear rude, as I know you are trying to help here (and in other posts). However, you and your fellow moderators appear to have been given some kind of instruction to answer all these "legacy" posts - i.e. ones that are quite old and have been carried across from the former platform - then mark them as "Accepted Answer".
In this example, Brett had already provided a perfectly acceptable answer, so why are you - and other moderators - (a) adding a further "answer" to a resolved issue and (b) then appear to be marking your responses as "Accepted Answer", instead of leaving that judgment to the original poster?
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Hi Paul,
The link provided will help others using the community should they have a similar question. It only makes this thread a bit more robust. If they use the search bar at the top, and even though this is an older post, it may still come up as a possible answer.
The good thing about the link is that it provides a consistent answer, and the articles are always kept up to date.
re. the answer being marked as accepted...how do you know it wasn't the original poster? (seriously asking as I'm not sure how that happens!). I also see that Wanda Eskue has "Mod" by her name, so as a moderator...is she given that permission/ability?
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Thanks for your comments.
I know the moderators are (presumably with authorisation) marking my responses with "Accepted Answer" because I am receiving notifications which confirm this label has been applied by a moderator, rather than the original poster.
Maybe I'm making too much fuss about the issue, but if I post something I want to be the one to confirm I am happy with the response given, not for for a third party to respond on my behalf!
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