Sources being added by missionaries?
Hi,
We have noticed that people not connected to the person on familysearch are adding sources, (they appear to be missionaries from the African countries). This has been noticed with french records and census records for England. The problem is that quite often they are making mistakes, linking incorrect people, not linking all the people on the record, adding duplicate or wrong people to familysearch. Is this something that is a pilot project?
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I've also noticed these adds quite often. The work is reminiscent of the Census Project - just adding names for the clicks.
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Is anyone else seeing in their "Notifications" that people from other countries (Ghana, Kenya, etc.) are accessing/posting "Social Programs" (United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007), of your deceased relative's records or is it just me? Is there some reason they only access that info? Thanks for any help.
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It's not just the NUMIDENT record set. I've also seen US Census records added. The NUMIDENT series is relatively new, and relatively simple, so it could be a good project for beginners adding to the FSFT.
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Hi @islandmaid and @Judy Kain Jones would you mind providing links to any examples of what you are seeing?
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US 1900 census added with no reason statements to:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MK67-GBM
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MK67-GYW
I messaged the user:
Hi, Re your recent changes to William Fraser MK67-GYW and Margaret Chisholm MK67-GBM. There are several problems with the 1900 census you attached to them.
1/ The children on the census don't match the children in the family.
2/ The census is for Pennsylvania USA in 1900, but the 1901 census for Scotland is already attached to William and the children showing they have not emmigrated.
3/ The DOBs and ages for William and Margaret don't match.
4/ The census shows they arrived in the USA in 1883/4 and the birthplace of the younger children confirms this, but the couple you attached this to were having children in Scotland right up to 1892 and the 1891 census for Scotland is already attached.
5/ You have attached the 1900 census to Margaret Chisholm. But she died in 1895.
These are clearly two different families.
Regards, Colin.
As expected, I got no reply.
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Here's another one NUMIDENT added last night: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MHDH-9CC
@ColinCameron I had one a few weeks ago where the same wrong census was added to a family several different times, giving a woman extra children born after her death. I corrected each time, with notes. Then I researched the family to which that census pertained and attached it there. It seemed to be the only way to stop the problem.
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@Maile L This thread touches on the same subject: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/154252/how-do-you-go-about-deleting-a-persons-incorrect-information#latest
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Two projects Volunteer Project and USCensusProject.
I raised "Cain" with the ones hidden behind these two so called projects. Turned out 1 or 2 persons, that is all. And even worse, they made toooooo many errors in my lines. Told them in no uncertain ways, they can hide behind the aliases like that since both were not the recognized projects. They do NOT do complete research before adding.
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@W D Samuelsen contact me please
Neither of these projects you mentioned is relevant to this thread, except for one offhand comment by @Áine Ní Donnghaile that "The work is reminiscent of the Census Project." I share some of your concerns about the census project users, but this thread is talking about individual users who are not hiding behind a generic project username.
I'm any case, please note that the Volunteer Project is nothing like the census project users. The Volunteer Project is an official project of FamilySearch, and has a very limited purpose: to standardized places for events that have no standards, while leaving the entered text untouched. It represents many thousands of users.
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Alan
The Volunteer Project I kept running into - has ZERO to do with place names. It did not have "The" in the name.
BTW, some of those place standards are so way off and some so brazen wrong that I had to report the errors to the Places quite a number of times.
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Well, something doesn't add up. The user with the precise name "Volunteer Project" is definitely a special FamilySearch user as I have described. If you look at the last change to the death for KLBR-76H, you'll see that it was made by that special user (clearly it's a special user since it can't be clicked on to send a chat).
So you must be confusing this special user with some other regular user.
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