Can I see all the changes another user has made to family tree?
Is there a way I can see all the changes another person has made to family tree? In the past few weeks this person has made several large errors that I have tried to correct by unmerging people, deleting sources incorrectly attached, and correcting the records as best I can. I would love to find the ones that have slipped past me so I can correct them.
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Hi - There is no way to see all the changes made by one individual in multiple places in Family Search. What you can see, as you probably know, are all the changes made to an individual profile by various individuals.
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Hi @ChristensenChristine1. If you notice someone has made a considerable number of mistakes, I'd also suggest contacting that person through the chat. Back up everything you say, and then ask gently how they came to their conclusions. I'd also recommend following each person that has been changed (clicking the star next to an ancestor's name), so that you can be alerted of any future edits.
Once followed, you should also be able to see any changes recently made to them, under 'Changes to People You Follow' : https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/following/
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I have often wished for this to be possible, as one can't help wondering about the full extent of the damage some users are creating within the tree, often only being aware of the awful work they have carried out on just the few profiles we encounter.
Unfortunately, the downside of having this ability might be that a user taking offence at the changes you make to their careless work could then seek out your inputs throughout the tree and vindictively undo your perfectly good contributions!
Although this might seem a highly unlikely scenario, I do worry about the mindset of those users who add multiple events for the same type of record, e.g., adding three 1901 census records as sources for a "John Smith", which relate to individuals who lived in totally different parts of England. I recently sent a polite message to a user who appeared to be "hedging his bets" on at least one of three census records he'd added to the same ID on the same day (presumably hoping at least one would be the correct item!) and received a rather rude response from him.
Unfortunately, FamilySearch hasn't the resources to "police" its vast tree, leaves corrective work to us users, then places the bar very high in order that we can report a user's actions as "abuse".
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It should not in theory be impossible to make the Family Tree self-policing, Wikipedia just about manages it, but that would require the user community both to accept and to implement fairly draconian rules and sanctions, and, given that 'quantity rather than quality' clearly remains some people's aim (e.g. the BYU Record Linking Lab), I can't see it happening.
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Thank you all for your responses. I will just keep looking at all those people I disentangled and see if I can get things corrected. I am grateful for the 'my contributions' report which does allow me to go back further than the 'recent people' so I can see where I started with this person's merge so at least I can double check all of those to be sure I corrected all the errors. Thanks for all the great work and advice you all do!!
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