michaelfish wrote:My wife wants to find a missing baptism date for her son so she can enter the info in familysearch.
If the information is showing up properly on his own membership record then the information is already in FamilySearch, but it is hidden from view due to current privacy laws. As soon as a death date is recorded for the individual on the membership record, that will feed in to FamilySearch and release the privacy lock on the rest of the information in FamilySearch on that individual.
I'll bet that even if your wife manually enters this information into FamilySearch, the software will automatically lock it down so that only she (the submitter) can see it, because the individual is still living.
For example, before my father died, I could only see his name in new.FamilySearch.org. My wife was unable to get any information on him at all. Her searches did not even show he existed.
After my father died, and that date of death was recorded in MLS, I was able to see all of his information in FamilySearch, including baptism date, endowment date, etc. My wife was now also able to locate him in FamilySearch under her own log-in.
My mother is still alive, and I can only see her name in FamlySearch. I cannot see her birth date, or marriage date. My father's record shows the marriage date, but does not show to whom he is married, because that information is still private because my mother is still living.
One possible reason for this, suppose the individual gets excommunicated or has his name removed from the records of the Church, but does not want to inform his parents. Due the the Church's desire to maintain the confidentiality of that adult individual, the parent's records will not show any change in the individual's status (e.g. confirmation date of a child suddenly disappearing off a parent's record). To do otherwise becomes a breach of that individual's confidentiality.