Please do not delete sources unless they are invalid.

Question

I just found someone going through my profiles deleting the references to Family Search records and putting in additional sources. I do not mind them adding more sources, but the Family Search record provides a link back to Family Search in the same way Find A Grave provides a link back to it. I am hoping in the future we can use the format we use to find duplciate profiles using Find A Grave to find duplicate profiles accessing Family Search Records and Individuals

Answer 1

you can use this to create links from WikiTree profiles back to FamilySearch profiles: https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:EditFamilySearch

Comments

I love that tool and have used it often. It does not add links to the source images however. I am hoping someday those links will be useful  in identifying when a single source has be used by multiple profiles.  Just yesterday I uncovered a huge mistake that has been widely adopted  which would have been caught if such a system were in place at Ancestry.

Answer 2

Just to be clear, these were records from FamilySearch and not links to an individual in a FamilySearch tree? Even if it was a tree, I would add the additional sources and only remove a tree reference if it was a broken one. Did you ask the person who made the change why?

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No they were links to the individual in family tree. However links to individuals and records should always be preserved for the reason stated in my original post. The records and the individuals are unique pointers that should not be duplicated over multiple wikitree profiles

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We do need to be careful with terminology. The individuals in trees aren't records. They may have records attached but aren't records that would provide evidence. On FamilySearch, a record is in a different place from the tree and they are careful about that.

Unless the links are broken they should be kept.

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Call them whatever you like. Regardles the profile ID link (to the individual’s record) and any source document links (to the image record of sources) should be maintained.

Answer 3

Good luck with that Lance.

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sounds quite frustrating Trudy - I would be torn wanting to revert but not lose the new sources either - I am guessing but I think I would end up copying the new source citation - reverting on the profile so you get back your FS links and then add back the new stuff

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Navarro Marriot.  You have a wonderful name.  I would think we are probably very distant cousins.  I have not run across cousins with the surname Marriot.  I would think if we do have a connection it would be Thomas Warren.  Nice to meet you.

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Thanks. I just went back and added the removed items to the additional work that he had done.

Answer 4

I frequently link to a family tree profile on FamilySearch, however, I add it at the end of sources with a :See also: heading. rather than as a primary source and if I find them on profiles managed by someone else while sourcing I add the :See also: and leave the link. Removing the links is not the proper course of action. I would definitely PM the person responsible and request that they do not remove the links. It might save them running afoul of another profile manager in the future. I am sure the person had good intentions.

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I did.  He has no ill intent. Mostly it is ignorance as to how those links are useful to many of us.

Answer 5

You all have great responses. Lance is referring to me.

While I am not ignorant to their use. I am guilty of using a different style to source profiles. I  replaced the trees listed with the actual records found in them & added them as individual sources. In addition, I added more sources than were there originally.

I also believe the trees should be listed under research notes, but that is just my opinion.

In the future I will leave the trees.

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I have a similar approach as Doug.     Sometimes I move what someone calls a  "source"  to either Research Notes or Acknowledgements.   I won't delete them,  in case they have some value to whoever posted them.  (Though many of the profiles have been abandoned by the original profile manager for years.)