A question about Data Quality
While signed in to FamilySearch, I went to the "Data Quality Score Feedback" page, where I apparently had to sign in again, possibly with different sign-in credentials. Why? I was already signed in to FamilySearch.
More importantly, I was trying to find out what it wanted for the Source Tagging component of the Quality score. Instead of telling me "The birth has one of two expected tagged sources", why doesn't it just tell me which source is missing? I couldn't find anywhere what two sources it was expecting.
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Data Quality Score Feedback is a Group within this Community, so you can use the credentials you used to create this thread. You will need to Join the Group before posting in it, but that should be painless.
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The Feedback button goes to the Data Quality Score Feedback group here in the Community; I don't know why it wanted you to sign in again, as normally sign-ins carry over between the main site and here (in both directions). The groups do require one to join in order to post messages, but on a basically-open group like the DQS one, that's a matter of clicking the "Join" button once.
Regarding those "one of two" messages, I have (repeatedly) asked for clarification, but have not received an answer. Perhaps my queries got lost amidst my other concerns, or perhaps everyone besides the two of us understands the message perfectly and assumes that questions about it are merely rhetorical?
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The statement ""The birth has one of two expected tagged sources" does not mean that the system knows there is another source that it expects you to find. It does not mean that there are two known indexed sources available to be tagged to the birth. It does not mean that there should be two birth sources tagged to the birth.
All it means is that the more confirmatory sources that one has for a piece of data, the better and more reliable it is and the data quality routine was programmed with the thought that two sources are enough.
For example, if Aunt Sally says John was born in 1835, the 1840 census says John was born in 1835, and his headstone says John was born in 1835, he was most likely born in 1835 based on those three sources. Tagging those three sources to his birth lets other researchers quickly see where the conclusion came from.
Of course if the three tagged sources are that Aunt Sally says John was born in 1833, the 1840 census says he was born in 1835, and his headstone says he was born in 1837, tagging those three sources to his birth data will give a great data quality score even though the accuracy of the data is likely poor.
For more on the question of "How many sources do you need?" see: https://generationsgenealogy.com.au/how-many-sources/ , https://www.legacytree.com/blog/what-constitutes-genealogical-proof#:~:text=One%20record%2Fsource%20is%20never%20enough.&text=There%20are%20typos%20and%20omissions,the%20details%20of%20the%20others. , and https://www.jstor.org/stable/844383 .
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If MDoran1 had not previously posted in the Community, he/she was signed in to the FS website to work with the records or the tree but not the Community. I see on the profile that there have been 2 posts (both today) and 1 visit.
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