The link below is where I wrote my post about this issue on the FamilySearch Community site. However, I would like to share this concern with OpenArch.nl. I'm hoping OpenArch and FamilySearch will be able to resolve the issue :)

Basically, sources have been moved to new links and FamilySearch now has "sources" for both the old and new links. Some old links will be attached to people on FamilySearch already. So, they shouldn't really be deleted, but merged with the new ones ideally.

OpenArch moving sources around (familysearch.org)

Jordi,

Thanks for notifying us about this issue.

What can happen is the following:

- records are "retracted" by the archive. This has been the case in recent population registers which archives have removed from their websites due to GDPR (privacy) regulations.

- an archive migrates to a new archival system which leads to new identifiers (this is really bad practice from the archives), usually archives can't provide a list of old and new id's. I guess this might look like records have moved.

- an (municipal) archive stops with providing records online and a regional archive gets this task, this is like a migration, where records not always keep their identifier.

FamilySearch (and others) who get their data from Open Archives can't really do much, as Open Archives can't provide a "conversion" list either as Open Archives can't get this list from the source, the archives.

Bob

Ah ok, this makes sense. Thank you for your response.