Can FamilySearch prevent someone from continually deleting information that is verified?
From Oct '21-Dec '21, an individual removed a great deal of information for KWZ3-GMC.
Someone else worked very hard and had restored most of the pictures and sources and got the families back together correctly by Jan. 3rd, 2022.
Once again, names have been removed or changed for family members; sources have been removed from many of them-twice; spouses and children have been removed.
Find a Grave was totally changed so that his memorial is barely recognizable except for pictures.
This time, the individual is making cryptic, accusatory remarks against the person who keeps correcting his destruction.
Can this individual be dealt with by FamilySearch? There are many descendants who are frustrated and disheartened that this is happening. I know it's a collaborative tree, but this has turned into a combative tree-all because of one person who is disgruntled.
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Destructive though this may be, it is not regarded as abuse of the system, as each of us has different opinions of what is correct and incorrect. Continually changing names and data back and forth however, is time-consuming and non-productive, and so the best way to resolve this issue is to communicate with the person making the changes and use dialogue to discuss differences and find an amicable solution.
Before making changes to any previously entered data, try to contact the person who entered it and come to an agreement as to what should be entered.
I have attached three Knowledge Articles that might be of use to you and give you further guidance. Use Ctrl and click to open them and find more information.
Kind regards,
Barry
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As far as memorials on Findagrave, you can report abuse there and sometimes get things fixed. Findagrave is owned by Ancestry. The wheels may grind exceedingly slow. I recently was able to get some improper images removed from a memorial after about 2 months.
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This is actually the third time he has done this. I am the one who has spent hours correcting the information and putting the tree back together. I was told he would be suspended. They changed his name to the date he was suspended. He was only gone from the middle of December to the end of April. He actually sent me a message to let me know he was back. I considered contacting FamilySearch then. I do not have the time or the will power to put it back together a third time.
He gave me his connection when I first met him on line. He is a distant relative of one of the wives of our relatives. And this is the relative he wants to prove is less of a person than he was on this earth.
This time around, # 3, he has also attacked my grandmother, who he is not related to. Relationships were removed and changed. He adds notes so that I know he is changing records. He writes unkind words about me everywhere. He removed a name and placed a dot or period in it's place and sent him to no where land. Fortunately I am a FS missionary and know how to retrieve what has been undone. I am serving for the 5th year at a FamilySearch Center.
He even seems to have a method of changing things so you cannot easily retrieve them.
He has sent me messages that he knows the names of each of my family members. Seven of my siblings are still living. This is all to taunt me. If I ignore him, he gets worse. Yet that is what I am choosing to do for now. I have been making a record of all that he has done and have found more notes written about me. Life sketches have been removed so they can become bulletin boards for him posting messages about me. It never stops.
He has stated the I have posted something that is not true. However, I have posted is in an obituary about our family member. This same information is also written in a history written by his daughter.
So if this information is incorrect, I have at least two accounts stating the information.
He posts threatening and unkind remarks all of the time, either on FamilySearch or Find A Grave. Somedays he posts more than a few.
I have now made many memories private, as they seem to be the most difficult to retrieve. I simply cannot spend all of my time doing this. I only wish I could make sources private. I have saved copies of all of the family in question's sources and added them as private memories. If this has to be put back together again, individuals can at least see what was on previously. Last time I had 700 changes on the individual that he like to work on the most. A brother had around 400 changes. He went as far as changing several generations on my direct line. Round #2 he even did a bit of work on my husband's family.
His favorite thing to do it replace their name with a dot or period and sent them away. He has done this with someone attached to my great grandmother. And yet, he continues to write notes here and there and everywhere.
I have received emails, messages on FamilySearch, messages on Facebook, text messages, etc. about what he is doing. So I am continuously involved. It saddens me that the names of the individuals who added the vitals or events are gone from the person page. Some of them have passed away. Now it appears I contributed most everything because I am the one who corrected it.
I could tell you more, but it seems not to matter. He even posted a link to this comment section so I would know that he knows about it.
Can you do anything? I have tried everything I know.
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My advice continue to report and ask for escalation on the matter, especially if there are personal attacks against you as that is abuse and Familysearch needs to respond. I know often you get just a basic missionary when you report using the system as created, maybe get a higher ranking person who you can consistently report to so that the same person who can fix things is seeing the damage done. I feel for ya, hang in there!
Cindy
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