I am looking for help merging two profiles. One says deceased and the other says living. Same person

ShawnMiller0

Dennis J Yancey

see if the system lets you remove the death date on the one marked as deceased.

Dennis J Yancey

Here is an article from the HELP CENTER ( a great resource for questions like this)

 

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-change-the-status-from-deceased-to-living-in-family-tree

 

The Help Center: https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/search?

X24 MOM

I don’t think FSFT allows us to merge living people

Dennis J Yancey

it does if they are both on the same account - which would be the only ones you could see.

 

Dennis J Yancey

in other words if you have two living people on your acocunt - you can merge them.

 

but in this case it is the deceased record that is the issue

and this deceased record once it is marked as living - will then - disappear from public view.

 

so in a round about way you are kind of right - in the end she wont merge them - but the deceased one will disappear.

 

Melissa S Himes

When the person is very much alive, only you should be able to see them. So, if you have found a living person with a record that says they are deceased, here is an article that will help:

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-change-the-status-from-deceased-to-living-in-family-tree

I had this happen with some of my family members who were alive. I didn't create the records and couldn't change the status to deceased. But, FamilySearch did.

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Wayland K Adams

But only by using the "Merge by ID" function