Is this a great example of sourcing?

Question

While reviewing some family entries, I noticed that the source information for James McClaren – McClaren-168 was substantially different than my original profile. Sources and citations were dramatically more detailed. Therefore I know, I can't take credit for them. Question is whether this is the expected standard for sourcing? And who did these edits? (I would like to thank them for their work) I don't know if I can meet there standard or expectation but it is it the standard I should work toward?

Answer 1

As Rob mentioned, this was data added from the GEDCOM you worked on in April (change is here).

GEDCOM sources are typically ill formatted, and are often hard to follow. For example, if you look at Source #7 there is a source ID of S92170963. Further down in the list, the second to last bullet point is also information about source ID S92170963.

Ideally, there would be a single source citation with all details.

Comments

And this can be cleaned up using the AGC browser extension.

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Thanks Kay - I really need to remember this!

Answer 2

Wayne, looks like you are the only one on the change log, but it does look very nice!

Answer 3

That detail was added when you edited this person from GEDCOMpare on 11 Apr 2022.