Any plans to allow stillborn babies to not 'require' a sex?

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: If a person does not have a sex assigned to them, then they have a data problem that states that male or female is required. I understand the purpose of this with ordinances. However, if a child was stillborn and they only have one record (that they died stillborn) stating that it was the child of such and such and not indicating a sex of the child, then that data problem will stay there forever when it should not be a problem for a stillborn child. My question is are there any plans to dismiss this data problem or just not have it show up for stillborn children? I'd like to get all data problems sorted with and this is a data problem that cannot be sorted out unless I just choose a sex.

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Juli said: It's not particularly satisfactory, but one solution is to not create a profile for an unknown-sex stillborn baby. Attach the source to the parents, and record a note about the child, either in the source citation's note field, or in each of the parents' Notes sections.

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Jeff Wiseman said: That's weird!

When did that show up? I don't ever remember getting that error on stillborns or ANY record with unknown sex. Has something changed here? (Rhetorical question)

"Unknown" is a legitimate selection in the vital field edit block, but when you select it now, it is always considered a data error?

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Erika Campbell said: I am reviewing birth records and most of them have the male or female mentioned, even if it is a miscarriage, but some don't. I just add unknown because it is mentioned that way.
In the Jewish records from Vienna the recorder is very precise about the children, even miscarried or stillborn, we need to read the complete entry.
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Tom Huber said: Unknown sex should not create an actual data error. I just did this on the beta site so I would not disturb production.

I was able to create a child named "Pat" with sex unknown for an existing family (on the beta site). It saved with no problems and no data error appeared until I opened Pat's profile. Then the data error appeared.

Going back to either parent, there was no data error displayed. Note, the profile silhouette had a question mark in its middle, which is fine.

The data error should not be happening and I cannot think of any reason for it to appear.

As far as meeting Church vicarious temple requirements, since the child was stillborn or declared a miscarriage, Juli's idea has some merit, except that there is a record. In that case, the child needs to be entered with the parents (because sooner or later, someone will discover the record at create the child. The orange ordinance factor is understandable, but that should not reflect to the non-ordinance sections of the profile.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: Oh yeah I read the complete entry. It just says child of.