Don't people realise how much it hurts

[Jocie]

On another site I found myself my husband and my children.
I contacted the person concerned but unsurprisingly never heard anything.
I contacted the site concerned and and asked them to to remove the information but as nothing happened I cancelled my subscription and explained in detail why I was doing it!!
I may be old but as far as I know I'm still classed as 'living.'


Jo

[panda40]

I noticed last night whilst adding some children to a distant relative on A******y that there is a new box you tick wether the individual you are entering is alive or deceased. As these individuals were all born between 1900 and 1910 I entered them as deceased. I needed to select  a box before I could continue. Nowhere was a  don't know box. Until I locate a death for each individual and confirm this it is confusing.

panda

[Nick29]

The old Ancestry 'rules' said that anyone without a death date entered who was less than 100 years old was considered as 'Living'.   On Ancestry, anyone classed as 'living' would not have any of their details shown on public trees.  Many people's trees have ancestors who are known to be dead, but do not have a death date, because one cannot be found.  The new Ancestry system allows people to show ancestors as 'dead', even though an exact death date is not known, which then makes their details viewable on public trees.  If you are not sure that someone is dead, you should click the button that shows them as being alive.

[ambers]

Does anyone know what the protocol is for entering someone born 1947 and died 2002 is

I wouldn't add  their birth, but to follow up with their marriage and death to me is very unwise because of the children involved.

Ambers

[flipflops]

I don't know what the protocol is, but personally I wouldn't enter a death that recent on any online tree (unless there were no close relatives apart from myself) but would put it on my written records. for my own information.

The person would appear on A***y eg as just male or female, so they're acknowledged rather than ignored, but the privacy of their closer family is protected.

[ambers]

Thanks flipflops,

That's exactly what I do. I wouldn't even think about entering someone born that year, even if they were deceased.

We all know how to trace really far forward, it comes with experience, but so does common sense and respect....normally.

I hope things are going  well for you

Ambers