FamilySearch adds vital data with no sources.

Paul Puente

I see that familysearch sometimes adds vital data to a record but adds no source, such as the following:

Vital Changed

Birth 1760 Virginia, United States June 7, 2019

F FamilySearch

Am I correct in assuming that this was added by familysearch and not by some poster? If so, how can I find the source?

Chas Howell

FamilySearch moved everything over from "new.familysearch.org" to the current FamilySearch.org Family Tree in 2012. Rather that a submitter name FamilySearch shows as the submitter. I don't even know if submitter name information was kept on the previous version, in any event to my knowledge there is no way of finding who submitted the data originally. In the sources section you can sometimes see New Family Search Legacy Sources, open them up, sometimes there is enough information shown to find a source if one was given.

dontiknowyou

Am I correct in assuming that this was added by familysearch and not by some poster?

No.

Under some circumstances when a contributor deactivates their account the name changes to Family Search and unless clues are left in notes on the page there is no finding out "who done it".

Edit to add: if you like to share the PID others here can take a peek and suggest how you can most efficiently find the matching historical records.

Paul Puente

Many thanks to both of you. I also understand now why some of my earlier contributions (prior to 2012) now show up as "Legacy" sources.

BarbaraGlasener

When information added to a record is attributed to FamilySearch, it is very disappointing that there is no source documentation included. Why isn't that a default part of the FamilySearch process so that the rest of the people contributing to that person can have access to that source, too?

Chas Howell

@BarbaraGlasener, read all the previous posts above