quality scoring of stillborn children
I encountered a stillborn girl in Elmelunde parish in Præstø county on Møn in Denmark. I attached the source for the birth and death/burial of this baby girll MS8Z-1L2. The quality score complain about the number of sources attached and no indexing. Should this just be ignored or should the algorithm be improved.
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I would just dismiss the flags if there is no other possible source. There is always going to need to be a balance between undercalling and overcalling possible areas for improvement. In this particular situation in Norwegian records there is often two sources, the Ministerialbok official record and Klokkerbok copy. Sometimes they are not the same and one will have information that is missing from the other. So for the quality score to flag that a birth should have two sources is a good reminder to check to see if a second record does exist and if it has more information.
I just took a look at the profile and now that the hinting routine has had time to work, there is a hint for her that will give a second source to tag to her name, birth, and death information.
Also, the source you have for her from the burial register does have information about her name and birth so that can be tagged to those as well as to the death information. That will give you three sources tagged to her name and birth information with one of them being an indexed source. That will satisfy the data quality score routine just fine.
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@NielsJensen1949 Thanks for the feedback!
After a little bit of research, I agree with Gordon. For now we are leaving the scoring as it is. We will be monitoring the stillborn issue and may add to our existing segment rules as we get more clarity on how each area handles stillborn records.
Thanks again!0