Data quality issue
I dislike how data quality flags when events happen after a person's death. Often an obituary of children will name their parents. The deceased parents names get attached to the obituary of the grown adult child. It pops up as a data quality issue. Can they stop this?
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@calewis67
There is a dedicated group for feedback on the Data Quality Score feature.
https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/323-data-quality-score-feedback0 -
Yes, it would be good to repost in the DQS group. However, in addition you might want to suggest a real fix in the Suggest an Idea section and/or in the Source Linker group. The problem most often arises when the Source Linker takes place information in the obituary and uses that information along with the date of the obituary to create a Residence for the deceased person which is clearly inaccurate. Even if it was where the person lived and not the place the obituary was published, the person is no longer living there after he or she died.
The data quality routine is functioning properly when it points this out. This issue is instead a Source Linker flaw. Basically, an obituary should not create a residence.
You can fix the flag problem two ways. Either change the date to the date of death if it is the person's residence at that time although this just duplicates the person's death information so you might as well just delete the residence altogether or create a Custom Event titled Obituary using that date and place and delete the residence.
You can also prevent the problem in the first place by not moving the "residence" information from left to right in the Source Linker in the first place then after closing the Source Linker adding that additional information to the profile correctly.
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