Death (or Burial) Quality is only at Medium but no explanation
Josephine McClain ( GCXQ-PYV ) has an overall Quality Score of "High".
Her Birth Event has an event-specific Quality Score of Medium - perfectly logical since all she has for her birth is a Date of 1875 and a Place of California. (Two tagged sources)
Her Death Event also has an event-specific Quality Score of Medium - but she has an exact date of death and a place of San Francisco, California. (One tagged source).
Her Burial Event also has an event-specific Quality Score of Medium - but she has an exact date of burial and a place of Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery, Colma, San Mateo, California. (One tagged source).
If I click on Show Quality Details, there are comments on her birth and marriage details, plus one comment on her 1910 census highlighting a different name.
There are no Comments on her Death or Burial event to tell me why those two events are only rated as Medium. I could make various guesses - maybe the Quality Algorithm wants 2 sources per vital event? Or maybe it's the fact that the tagged source for both of those events is a Memory Source referring to a record on Ancestry, which doesn't have a persona with indexed values?
So - if there is a mild issue (as there clearly is), why isn't the issue listed so I can take action?
(As far as I'm concerned, the greater granularity of the scoring by going down to event level, is a greater opportunity - but I do need to understand what it's telling me).
(I reserve the right to complain later about the rating only being medium but I need to understand why first. After all, I could be wrong!)
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@Adrian Bruce1 Thank you for the feedback. This is great :) I will pass this along.
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Bruce, are there any conflicts with Residences? I had a rating of "low" on a death and burial that had direct link to the Ohio Death Certificate, and the Obituary, and Find A Grave index.
The problem was that someone had added a residence place from one of the databases that had the person as living at the residence a year after the date of death, but that never triggered a flag for that factoid. Many of these city directory databases contain multiple years, and sometimes surviving spouses don't change their information. The system should have flagged the database that the fact was pulled from, but in my opinion, not penalize the DOD and DOB. Just an idea.
(To Rhonda, the only way I was able to figure it out was to dig around, otherwise I would provide that person's ID. Sorry!)
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Another example to pass on as a possible problem with the routines: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GDD3-Q82
Christening flagged as Medium. It has a full date and place. Three sources are tagged to it.
The only data issues pointed on in the side bar are that a death record shows a different name (due to the index having a transcription error) and that the death place is missing. There are no quality issues with tagging.
I don't see any way to improve the christening to get a High grade. If the routine wants two indexed sources tagged to earn a high grade, that needs to be stated somewhere. Also, if this is the problem, then it needs to be dismissible because, in this case, no second indexed source exists.
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@monnettohio - I can't see any conflict. I have a 1930 Residence of San Francisco for her (the last residence for her), then the 1934 death in San Francisco, followed by the burial 2d later in Colma, San Mateo co..
Hmm. I hope it's not getting worried about death being in one county (San Francisco) and burial in another (San Mateo) - especially because in this era there weren't any cemeteries left in San Francisco, they were (nearly?) all out at Colma. I guess I just have to wait to see if anyone explains…
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@Gordon Collett said "If the routine wants two indexed sources tagged to earn a high grade, that needs to be stated somewhere".
That's my best guesses at the moment. There's only one source each for both Death and Burial. And / or they are Ancestry sources and therefore have no indexed persona in them. I'm unwilling to start attaching extra sources like the California Death index or FindAGrave just in case someone wants to look at her as she is now.
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