Record connecting.
Please fix the record hints so that when a record is already connected it does not show up again as a new hint.
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Eileen
Welcome to the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum.
[ With what appears to be your first post ... ]
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
Just in passing ...
Questions:
(1) Did you just attach the "Source"?
.... IF, so, THEN, the "System" NEEDS to be "Refreshed", to enable "Synchronisation" ...
.... Otherwise, the "System", DOES NOT, recognise, that the "Source", has just been attached.
AND ...
Even less understood ...
(2) Are they, in fact, EXACT "Duplicates", of the SAME "Source"?; OR,
.... Are they DIFFERENT "Indexing", of the SAME "Event"?
.... ie. Actually, a DIFFERENT "Source", for the SAME "Event".
.... IF, such is the case; THEN, they NEED to be attached.
.... There are MANY occasions, when a "Source", is simply ANOTHER "Indexing", of the SAME Event.
.... In such cases, they are NOT "Duplicates".
.... IF, "Sources", have "Different" URLs; THEN, they are NOT "Duplicates" ...
Unfortunately ...
It is a common misconception, that "Sources", are "Duplicates"; when, in fact they are NOT.
Plus ...
In just about, every case ...
They are simply DIFFERENT "Indexing", of the SAME "Event"; and, SHOULD be attached.
Too many User/Patrons, DO NOT understand, that there can be a number of "Indexing", for the SAME "Event".
Sometimes:
▬ There is a "Re-Indexing" of a "Event", at a LATER date; where, MORE "Data" has been "Indexed"
.... [ BOTH, "Indexing" are valid; and, SHOULD be RETAINED ... ]
.... [ As, many of the EARLIER "Indexing" (ie."Sources) have ALREADY been attached to individuals/persons ... ]
OR ...
▬ Different "Organisations" (eg. FamilySearch; Ancestry; FindMyPast; etc) often "Index" the SAME "Event".
Thus, we have MULTIPLE "Indexes" (ie. "Sources"), of the SAME "Event.
And ...
They SHOULD "All" be attached ...
Furthermore ...
I have NEVER had (well, not that I can ever recall), "Record Hints", that are attached (or, for that matter "Dismissed") appear AGAIN.
UNLESS, of course, those particular "Sources", that WHERE previously attached, HAVE subsequently been "Detached" by, oneself; or, ANOTHER User/patron ... that is another matter ... where, they WILL "Reappear" ...
As far as I am aware ...
Such will ONLY generally "Reappear", if those "Sources", were NOT attached; or, "Ignored".
[ or, have subsequently been "Detached" ... ]
Just my thoughts.
Brett
ps: Again, in the vast MAJORITY of cases ...
.... The "Sources", are NOT exact "Duplicates", of the SAME "Source" ...
.... [ As, they DO NOT have, the "Same" URL ... ]
.... The "Sources", are DIFFERENT "Indexing", of the SAME "Event"; and, in fact, ANOTHER "Source" ...
.... And, those ADDITIONAL "Sources", NEED to be attached ...
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