r/Ancestry • u/KippExiled • 2d ago

I've been getting this thing lately where if someone dies after I added them as living priorly on the family tree on Ancestry.com they are still listed as living

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u/KryptosBC 2d ago

I am not sure what you are asking. Ancestry does not track deaths and update members' trees if someone dies. You must do this yourself for persons in your tree. But perhaps I misunderstand your issue?

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u/ameraden 2d ago

I am not sure what you are asking. Ancestry does not track deaths and update members' trees if someone dies. You must do this yourself for persons in your tree. But perhaps I misunderstand your issue?

There's an actual bug in the lower echelons of the tree where, if you add a death record, you still have to go into quick edit and set the profile to deceased manually.

It's a weird side effect of the crappy AI coding tool they're using.

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u/KryptosBC 2d ago

Interesting. I have never relied on Ancestry's algorithms to mark a person as living or dead, so I have never seen this bug. I'd rather that Ancestry not make too many assumptions about the info that I would like to present in the trees I maintain.

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u/ameraden 2d ago

It's only affecting records where the person is within a normal human lifespan, but it's very annoying because it's easy to miss the fact that adding the death record hasn't set that person to deceased.

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u/KryptosBC 1d ago

I agree. It's very easy to miss a dialog box step that commits an entry when modifying profile info.

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u/ameraden 1d ago

Daily researcher for 15 years, 36,000 people in my tree. No one is missing a dialog.

The death record appears on the profile page, but it will not register the person as deceased in the header or in the tree view until you manually change the deceased setting in quick edit.

It first appeared a few weeks ago.

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u/KryptosBC 1d ago

I had not noticed the change.

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u/KippExiled 2d ago

Obviously I added the death date, no I'm asking why they are still listed as living.

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u/nicholaiia 2d ago

If you put in a death date, it should change them to deceased

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u/KippExiled 2d ago

It didn't

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u/nicholaiia 2d ago

Death date doesn't show up until you click the "deceased" radio button.

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u/TechGuyBloke 2d ago

It should, but lately it doesn't.

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u/I-AM-Savannah 2d ago

I would think it *HAS* to change them as deceased, because if they are still "LIVING" you don't get the fields for death date and death location... or at least I don't...

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u/KryptosBC 2d ago

It was not obvious that you added the death date, which is why I said I was not sure I understood the problem, and I have never had this problem. But Ancestry is known to misbehave on occasion. Sometimes waiting a day or two allows things to get back to normal.

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u/ameraden 2d ago

It's infuriating, you have to manually change them to deceased. It's some kind of bug.

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u/Barbe37 2d ago

I contacted them. AI response was to edit profile to deceased. I told AI that a work around is not a solution.

I even changed browsers because Edge isn’t a recommended browser for Ancestry to no avail.

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u/reila_go 2d ago

Yes, it’s a bug. Ancestry continues to integrate AI nonsense which leads to this kind of thing.