Treatment of user ideas

JohnBromby

Hello I used the relevant form when suggesting an idea about 3 weeks ago. How does one know whether an idea has been sent, treated, and is there not a way for others to see ideas being sent in? Maybe there is a section for this but I can't find anything of this nature.

Regards

MandyShaw1

There is unfortunately currently no feedback to submitters, though we are assured the ideas are reviewed by the appropriate team(s).

I recently submitted an idea asking for action on this, I copied it here:

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/174169/idea-re-suggest-an-idea-process-submitted-but-shared-here-for-visibility

JohnBromby

Thanks for your reply Mandy and unfortunately I didn't keep a copy of my suggestion. But for general interest the idea was that all information in a person's "Details" page be systematically supported by either a tagged source or in absent of this some sort of reasoning be provided. Even when a source is supplied the reason box should be filled in. The idea was for users to be more disciplined in their date inputting to the extent that any new data, or modifications etc if not accompanied by a source and reason or just a reason would not be saved. I made this suggestion as I became frustrated by users, some having no relation to the person in question, making changes or adding information without any sources or reasoning. In the past I've been guilty of not always providing collaborative or supporting reasons and I'm now going through person by person tightening things up.

Issues can be from ancestors having emigrated to a country simply because a similar name appears on a boat passenger list - as an ancestor that was easy to correct as I knew he never emigrated, but travelled a great deal for business reasons. Or, an ancestor suddenly having a daughter with no supporting information attached.

At the end of the day if FS wants there to be a single tree, albeit for the moment in fragments, then the validity of any part is only as good as its weakest link and false information will provide false ancestors etc.

I've just posted a question as to how to correctly in put a person's name due to spelling differences and additional forenames appearing on documents post birth.

I've taken to heart that genealogy is only true in the presence of collaborative or reasoned sources, if not then the tree becomes mythology.