priorities in searches for active users who are developing their genealogy
priorities in searches for active users who are developing their genealogy or create a subscription system to prioritize people documents from people who are trying to acquire nationality through ancestors
my suggestion is that the researches should give preference for the actives people in the website, the people that are organizing their genealogy or, make some registrations to people that are interesting in make your genealogy and start the familysearch researches from this point, where people are needing theses documents, and then starting updating random documents after that , this make more sense and is more fair, for exemplo i m always updating my genealogy and engaged with de project correcting some mistakes etc,and i have zero help to find difficult documents for exemplo documents in another country and probably there is some voluntary updating random documents close of that city i need my search documents,in reality the random documents its not urgent , if you think about my situation that it would be extremely useful to be able to find my genealogy before the time runs out to apply for citizenship of my ancestors origin ,for me make hundred por cent more sense make priorities for some cases to help people that are in this important situations
thank you for your attention !
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priorities in searches for active users who are developing their genealogy or create a subscription system to prioritize people documents from people who are trying to acquire nationality through ancestors
my suggestion is that the researches should give preference for the actives people in the website, the people that are organizing their genealogy or, make some registrations to people that are interesting in make your genealogy and start the familysearch researches from this point, where people are needing theses documents, and then starting updating random documents after that , this make more sense and is more fair, for exemplo i m always updating my genealogy and engaged with de project correcting some mistakes etc,and i have zero help to find difficult documents for exemplo documents in another country and probably there is some voluntary updating random documents close of that city i need my search documents,in reality the random documents its not urgent , if you think about my situation that it would be extremely useful to be able to find my genealogy before the time runs out to apply for citizenship of my ancestors origin ,for me make hundred por cent more sense make priorities for some cases to help people that are in this important situations
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@victorpaiva3, I couldn't make heads or tails of your suggestion when you first made it a few weeks ago. What is it that you believe FS does or doesn't do, that you want them to change?
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@victorpaiva3 , please forgive me if I am completely misunderstanding, but do I understand correctly that you are requesting the following?
Are you suggesting that FamilySearch look at the activity of the top couple of percent of users of the website, analyze what they are working on, and base record acquisition efforts based on that?
For example, if I were on FamilySearch 20 hours a day making hundreds of edits and if my grandparents were from Bolivia, that FamilySearch would shift a large number of record digitization crews to Bolivia?
As just another user I have no idea how filming projects get prioritized or about any of the what must be very complex negotiations between FamilySearch, archives, and governments. Also, I have no idea whether it would help your research efforts if you contacted FamilySearch to urge them to investigate acquiring records from specific countries you are interested in. But you could give it a try.
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cross-reference data from family trees that are already created, to start new searches for documents based on these informations, we started from the idea that these documents are more important at the moment as they are necessary for platform users as i said sometimes for get dual citizenship,this way the site would really be valuing those who are interested in the subject and need documents
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So, the problem with basing anything off how active the users is that the results would be skewed towards the most active country. If a country with a lot of immigration is the most active, then that would prioritize finding records from the countries that people usually immigrate there from, and everywhere else falls to the wayside. If a country without much immigration is the most active, then you would mostly get people from only a single country. So the search would become slightly worse (If the most active country has immigrants from all over the world), or it would get significantly worse (if the most active country has few immigrants or if the immigrants all come from a limited number of countries). I can't think of any scenario where there would be an improvement.
If you want FamilySearch to figure out where their records are lacking and prioritize those records, that would probably be more reasonable, but it's so obvious that there's a good chance they already do that. FamilySearch only has access to the documents that the record owners allow FamilySearch to have, so what you want will not always be possible for them to get.
There is a possibility that the documents you want just aren't indexed (in which case you can check here: https://www.familysearch.org/records/images/beta) There is also the possibility of lost, destroyed, or confidential records, which is a whole other issue. Or, it's possible that a record was simply never made, depending on how far back and where you are researching.
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