Quality Score and tagging Sources
First let me say, I LOVE QUALITY SCORE!
Secondly, here's my conundrum: 1905 Iowa State Census: Dodge Township, Guthrie, IA, parents, R C White and Lizzie White had a family of 7 children that included my Grandmother. I was able to find and attach the FS records/citations for 7 of the 9 members of the family while doing reconciliations between the Person Page and Source page. That meant detaching the Ancestry source citation (hand made by me) in favor of the FS citation if already there or finding same.
Here's the problem. I can't locate my Aunt Ellen ( MW8C-FRX) or Aunt Mary's (LH8R-CRL) FS citation even though they clearly appear on the Ancestry record and the Quality Score is not acknowledging the Ancestry citation. Why? I attempted to dismiss with explanation and am told "Try Again, something went wrong"
On Ellen's I put: ALL Residence(s) have been tagged with a source. This is "hand" sourced with info from ancestry.com.
On Mary's I put: THIS STATEMENT IS INCORRECT. The residence in question, 1905 Iowa State Census, is supported by a user based citation in FS following "Source" information provided by ancestry.com. I have searched for the FS citation/record SIX WAYS to SUNDAY with no luck. This is a family of 9, 7 children and mother/father. Ellen and Mary cannot be found by me.
Ellen and Mary's "hand made Ancestry citations" were made/attached 5 August 2013, possibly before the 1905 Iowa State Census was available on FS?
Answers
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The DQS algorithm can only see the metadata for FamilySearch sources. All other sources can't be analyzed by the algorithm, because it has no visibility into the metadata for the source. So your Ancestry source might provide wonderful documentation for the birth of your ancestor, but since DQS can't see the birth date associated with that source record, it can't compare it to the birth date associated with the ancestor's person profile. That is why "the Quality Score is not acknowledging the Ancestry citation."
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Regarding Ellen and the DQS note about no indexed sources, I reported a few months ago that some of the comments that should easily dismiss just produce that error when I try to dismiss them. There is an apparently rather stubborn bug in the system. I hope they are still working on it. All you can do at this point is try back every couple of months and see if the bug has been fixed yet.
Or maybe by that time she will finally show up in a FamilySearch census index that you can attach and tag and take care of it that way.
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@PamelaCarter2 If I may suggest, we have a dedicated group for Data Quality Score Feedback. The moderators and engineers follow-up quickly on any questions or problems. You may want to join and post there.
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Here is the 1905 for Ellen:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2S89-RTP?treeref=MW8C-FRX&lang=en
Here is the 1905 for Mary:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2S89-TQM?treeref=LH8R-CRL&lang=en0
