G2G: Gold Standard Candidate: Mary Elizabeth (Herren) Ogden (1873-1938)

Question

This profile has been marked as a Gold Standard Candidate. Does it meet the strict requirements?

Comments

Be sure to respond to answers when you are ready for a new review.

Answer 1

Requirements include 

Each birth, death, and marriage date and location is stated in the biography with a complete source citation for a reliable source, or its uncertainty is explained in Research Notes.

You have many children which do not have sources, as stated in Research Notes, so no, it should not qualify as a Gold Standard

Comments

I have added sources for the children using the recommendations made for her husband.

Answer 2

This is just my personal opinion, as nothing is said about it in the Gold Standard guidelines, but I do not find it acceptable that half a woman's life is simply skipped over by referring to her husband's profile.

I will sometimes leave a similar note on a profile that is a work in progress to point out that work on e.g. censuses has already been done on profiles from the same household (so that household info can be copied over at a later date), but I would not consider a profile reasonably complete with such a note on it.

Comments

I added a list of the places she lived after her marriage and a Research Note explaining why I think it is best to leave long and complex proofs in one profile rather than trying to duplicate the information. Duplicate and redundant info gets out of synch very easily.

Answer 3

Hi Kevin, since I previously reviewed the profile for Mary's husband William, I will now review Mary's profile. 

Here is what I would recommend when considering the Gold Standard requirements:

Status Indicators: Mary's relationship needs to her parents should be marked "confident" since you have reliable sources to support the relationship.

Children's Profiles: This is something I overlooked while reviewing William's profile. Mary's children Elma, Lima, Mary, Ethel, Alma, Fern, Cecil, and James, need a complete citation for a reliable source supporting their relationships to their parents on their own profiles. Even though there are complete citations for the relationships on their parents' profiles (which is optional), the source citations to support the relationship are required on the children's profiles (see the Help page). You should just be able to copy and paste the citations into the children's profiles, after the sentence in their biography states the parents' names. For the baby girl born 1913 the source citation is also more complete on her parents' profiles than on her own, and could be updated.

Additional notes (not Gold Standard requirements):

Death Record: consider uploading a copy of the death record or transcribing it (you could add a transcription below the source citation in the sources section, for example), so that others can see what the record says, particularly if the death record names her parents.

Duplicate Source: the 1880 census is duplicated in the sources section (inline citation #4 and #14)

Typo: in the Residences section, you say she moved with her family in 1883 but the source citation is dated 1893

Residences: in the list of residence places, consider citing some of the census records to support the place names here, since you already have them cited elsewhere on her profile to support the relationships to her children

Check Boxes: consider checking the no more siblings/spouses/children check boxes if you're confident there are no more relationships to add