the new Quality Score feedback and questions

O'Dwyer, Paul Kent

I really like the new Quality Score. Especially that it allows me to click on the score and see what can be done to make the score go up or become stronger if already high.

I have sometimes been frustrated when details are changed on an ancester who is already well documented. Can this Quality score help in some way lock down an account (not sure if that is the right word). By locked down i'm refering to the way many famous peoples account or profile is locked down to prevent changes, since they are so well documented and nothing of their core details are in contention. It would be nice if once the quality score becomes high that then some means could be employed to prevent changes that would reduce changes to the ancestors high quality data… a flag message if a change that would reduce the quality is detected… or some other means. not only for the quality of a persons data, but the quality of the persons connection to another person (to parents, children, spouse).

Also, could there be a way to search for the low and middle quality folks, so that i could turn my attention where it is needed easier? perhaps on the pedigree charts view, embolden the boarder around their name or on the pedigree view add an option to (birth place, sources, stories, photos, research helps etc.) to highlight the low and medium quality folks. But a search would be better, Family Search needs a way for us to search the tree closes to us… some examples…. with an option to tell the search to look 10 ancestors deep in the tree, and add children to a chosen amount of generations… then to search for quality scores of our choosing, who has hints, possible duplicates, other data problems etc.

These are just thoughts that seem useful to me. Thanks for listening

Rhonda Budvarson

@O'Dwyer, Paul Kent thank you for your feedback. Regarding (Can this Quality score help in some way lock down an account). While this is not possible at present. You can initiate an alert for the profile you are concerned about. Here is an article with some ideas:

https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/how-can-i-prevent-other-people-from-making-inaccurate-changes-to-family-tree

Your second request (Could there be a way to search for the low and middle quality folks). We have a ticket issued for this particular request. I will add this discussion to that group :)