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Requiring Source Documentation

Sheryl Neal Slaughter
Sheryl Neal Slaughter ✭✭✭
April 14, 2021 in Suggest an Idea

To ensure data integrity and to save so very many of us from undoing and correcting bad information, I would like to propose that Family Tree require source documentation for every piece of information added.

I spend a ton of time reaching out to contributors who have added tons of information and not one note of where they got it. Also, the system should NOT allow family tree, or GEDCOM as a source. A popup on appropriate source documentation should be available everywhere a source needs to be cited.

Right now, Family Tree is quickly becoming one giant fairy tale. I would love to be contributing the thousands of source documents sitting on my computer, but sadly, I spend most of my time undoing bad information. The worst part of this is, the fairy tale families are being taken to the temple and wasting precious time and resources.

Thanks!

Sheryl Neal Slaughter

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