Flag Profiles With Potential Errors
It would be nice to be able to flag ancestor profiles that have errors and/or that tend to be problematic. In my own family, there is an ancestorial couple that has an incorrect marriage record attached to it. The record lists the groom's given and middle names as initials. The record is a correct marriage record for another ancestorial couple, just not THIS one.
Example: Mary Jane Keith's marriage to "W. M. Shook" on 9 Aug 1855 in Jackson County, Alabama is often incorrectly tied to Wesley Marion Shook (1820-1924). The groom in this marriage should be William Milburn Shook (Wesley Marion's brother).
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Are you familiar with the relatively new option to create an Alert Note? That would seem to be the place for such a designation.
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This capability already exists, although it's in two parts: an "outward-facing" one, and an "inward-facing" one.
The outward-facing part is the Alert Note, which puts a banner across the top of the profile's Details page, pointing at a Note where you can explain, for example, that the "W.M." in that marriage record refers to the other brother.
The inward-facing part is the "Following" star that you can set on the problematic profiles. This will alert you to any changes made to those profiles by other users.
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This is the purpose and function of the new Profile Quality Score. It doesn't do much with marriage data and sources yet but I would hope that is the plan down the road. You may want to go to https://www.familysearch.org/labs/ , turn on that experiment, and play around with it.
By the way, you stated "there is an ancestorial couple that has an incorrect marriage record attached to it." [Emphasis added]. I hope you meant to write "had an incorrect marriage record attached to it." You did remove it, didn't you?
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