I would like help with improving the question 

> [Who were children and parents of Jacob Fisher and Sarah Hodges?][1]

According to the 2000 US census, Fisher is the 103rd most common name in the US (whereas my surname isn't even in the top 150,000). Someone searching Fisher now discovers this question as closed with with a highlighted entry:

> closed as not a real question by GeneJ, ColeValleyGirl, JustinY,
> RobertShaw, Sue Adams Nov 8 at 19:28
> 
> It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is
> ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot
> be reasonably answered in its current form.

I have spent significant time trying to improve this question. Does it need more to be reopened? What is the minimum standard (not the gold standard) for a question to be active vs closed? 

I have subsequently removed the question. The reopen votes had aged out(other than mine - I was late in voting to reopen my own question since I did not have enough reputation yet) and my research on other sites made it seem unlikely to me it would ever get reopened. I do think we should be careful in closing questions just to improve them since according to other sites, it's unlikely they will ever reopen. See [improving-the-reopen-system][2] for more on this. If the stackoverflow site (largest on stackexchange) has trouble finding enough reputation to reopen, then I recommend the genealogy.se experts be very careful when voting to close, especially while we are still in beta.


  [1]: http://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/1951/who-were-children-and-parents-of-jacob-fisher-and-sarah-hodges
  [2]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/155364/improving-the-reopen-system