When these people have a death certificate it is for someone else. This is just a few I found today

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 How can this problem be fixed? No one was able to help me when I called today. Carolyn

Dellory Matthews

I looked at the first one. I see record hints for his death record and the death records of 2 of his children, in which he is mentioned.

Here's a brief article about record hints and at the end of it is a link to an article about attaching them.

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-are-record-hints-in-family-tree

Barbara Holm

I looked at the first two id numbers you gave. The death certificate is for Benjamin Tanner's daughter, Catherine. Because Catherine's parents are named on her death certificate it came up as a hint for the parents too. Is this what is confusing you? I attached the death certificate to both the parents and the daughter. Barbara Holm

MNuttall

Yes, as Dellory and Barbara have noted, death certificates (if you are lucky) name the deceased person's spouse and parents. These vital records are important in proving relationships and so you would want to attach the certificate as a source to each of the persons mentioned.

Keep in mind that while a death certificate is a primary source for the deceased, it is a secondary source for the person's parents. The accuracy of the information for the deceased's parents would be dependent upon the informant.

Here is an article from the Research Wiki about primary sources:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Primary_sources

And here is what a Google search produced about secondary genealogical sources:

Secondary sources are documents, oral accounts, and records that are created some length of time after the event or for which information is supplied by someone who wasn't an eyewitness to the event. A secondary source can also be a person who was an eyewitness to the event but recalls it after significant time passes.

Of course, this information is extraneous to your original question -- but the record hinting function in Family Tree is designed to capture each individual's name in a document.

Best wishes as you work in Family Tree!