Contacting relatives
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You can click on their username and start a chat, but they aren't obliged to respond, and obviously many contributors are no longer active FamilySearch users. So you may be out of luck. The sources and/or memories on the profile may help you kick off your own researches, as may any Research Helps present.
It would probably be useful to know what your objective is here.
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there is no username on this specific person from what I can see
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Could you perhaps give us a link to one of the items you've found, please? (I'm assuming we are talking about Family Tree profiles, but maybe not.)
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Hi @Margie456. You might find this article useful:
When contacting contributors, it's always helpful to check when they last attached sources or edited data. You can see that date next to their username on the ancestor's details page. In general, the chances of getting a response are lower if they posted some years ago, but that's definitely not always the case. Also, some users can't be contacted for reasons like age restriction or not having chat enabled.
If you both have relationship viewing enabled, you can click their username and see how they're related to you, as well. Notably, some contributors are just volunteers, rather than related.
Lastly, if you were reaching out to the poster for help with the tree, know that we're happy to help too. :)
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Just a note to everyone on this chat. It is not the username that is shown. It is what is called the contact ID. And account holders can edit their contact ID to suit themselves. You just click on the contact ID and can chat. Family Search never shares a username with anyone.
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Thanks, @Wayland K Adams, that's good know. Username is such a general term, but on here in this context, I'll remember that it should be Contact ID!
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hi sure! This is the page
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FGV-WCCQ?cid=fs_copy
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hi thanks for the advice but I don’t see an edit date anywhere on this page
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6FGV-WCCQ?cid=fs_copy
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Hi @Margie456. Records like these aren't posted by a particular person. Rather, FamilySearch makes agreements with organizations on whether they can scan the image and/or just transcribe the information in an index. Unfortunately, this image appears to be the latter case. Here's information on this record set:
According to that link, "A copy of the record is also kept at the local registry office or at the Civil Court Clerk's Office (Bureau du greffe du Tribunal civil)." So, to see the image, I believe that contacting the local registry office would currently be the only way to do so.
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@Margie456 The collection of Haitian Civil Registration records you are looking for are available online for years earlier than 1924 which apparently is according to the contract FamilySearch has with the National Archive in Haiti. In the catalog entries, the film #'s without a camera icon are not available at the Salt Lake Library. When you see the words "Granite Mountain Vault" it tells you the physical copy of the microfilm is there and not in the library. In the past, you could arrange to get a copy brought to the library to view, but that service is not available at this time. (See this article.)
FamilySearch is working to find ways to make those films in the vault available to the public, so—if by chance you are able to arrange a trip to Salt Lake, keep checking back for how you might gain access to the information you need.
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