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Secondly, if you add someone through a GEDCOM upload or link a tree from your Family Tree Maker software (where there’s not a living/deceased setting), then we calculate the living status based on the following rules:ġ. So how does Ancestry determine who’s living and who’s not in your family tree? This happens a couple of ways: First, when you add or edit a person on you set whether the person is deceased or living-and we respect that setting.

Hint: If you’re missing information about your ancestor, try finding him or her in a historical record, such as a birth certificate, marriage certificate, draft card, or death certificate.If you uploaded a GEDCOM to create your Ancestry family tree, and you did not include death dates for some of your ancestors, they could be showing up as private… even if they’re long dead.Īccording to this blog post, here’s what is happening (emphasis added by me): In order to add a person to the Tree, you will need his or her name, and then you can enter as much additional information as you can about them, such as where they may have been born or where they lived. In that case, you could go ahead and add the person yourself. If after editing your search, you still can’t find the person you’re looking for, it may be that the person hasn’t been added to Family Tree yet. If applicable, use the Alternate Names field to enter a maiden name, alias, or different spelling. You also can try changing the Life Event menu to Birth or Residence instead of Any. Increasing the date range for a particular life event can help. To broaden your search then, consider modifying anything that might have been too specific, such as an exact year. If that’s the case, click Search in the right corner to open it. Note: Depending on your screen size, the search panel might not be open at first. If your initial search came up empty, use the search panel on the right side of the screen to modify your search terms.

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Then click on the name in the pop-up window to navigate to the person’s full person page. When the search results appear, click a name to see a summary of that person’s information. Once you have entered the information you know, click Find to search for your ancestor’s profile in Family Tree. In other words, you could do an exact search for a particular birth date but not for your other fields. It’s highly recommended that you only select the fields you’re sure you want to be exact, and that you start with a few. Instead, it opens a box next to all of the screen’s search filters, which you can then select or leave empty. It's important to note that turning on the toggle for Show Exact Search doesn’t immediately engage an exact search. The actual data in Family Tree may be slightly different than the names, dates, and places you are entering, so being flexible with your search criteria is usually a good idea. Be careful using this option, and only use it when you are getting back more search results than you can reasonably consider. You can use the same guidelines and strategies for entering names here as you did earlier.ĭirectly below the Family Member section is a toggle for Show Exact Search. Under Add Family Members, enter what you know about the person’s spouse, father, mother, or other relationship. Doing so is likely to make your search more accurate. Be sure to change the filter from Any to Birth, Marriage, Residence, or Death.

Under Add Life Event, enter what you know about where the person was located during their life.

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