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Put source attachments back to the previous hover or click mode

Cynthia Bower
Cynthia Bower ✭
February 15, 2022 in Suggest an Idea

Hi, I am a frequent researcher and use the source attachment tree icon often to see who the source is attached to. When I discover a different ID # than my person I investigate to see if it is a duplicate person who was not found by the duplicate function (often). Then I can merge and find whatever clues and resources are in that person too. A BIG WIN!

Since the source area has changed so much, a person has to click on the (tree icon) person the source is attached to which take me to a whole detail page, and isn't even able to open it in another right-clicked tab. It is a BIG time waster since just hovering over, or clicking before, was a quick answer to the ID# of the person it was attached to. If I wanted to investigate further I could right click to a new tab and if it was my person I could quickly move to look at other sources.

PLEASE return to the function that expedited research in a useful and efficient way!


Cindy Bower

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  • JaniceFFisher
    JaniceFFisher ✭
    February 17, 2022

    Let me first say that you have a FABULOUS system. I have been using Family Search quite extensively and have found many thousands of sources to attach to records (My Contributions says over 20,000). I love Family Search.

    But I too do much prefer the old process that when you clicked on the source attachment tree icon when researching collections, you saw the ID of the person the source was attached to without automatically going there. You could further investigate if needed or just easily verify that it was attached to the person you were researching and move onward to the next possible source if it was attached to your person or decide to investigate further if it wasn't.

    It now takes a very, very long time to navigate through the sources as every time you click on the icon to see who it is attached to, you end up leaving the collections and going to the page for the person to which that source is attached. I just need to know the ID of the person it is attached to, which is what it wonderfully used to do. Now if there are many possible sources attached to records, it can take many times longer to go through them than it did before. It really slows down the research. It also makes it more likely to miss a source that should be attached.

    I too would like for the process to be returned to what it was. Or at least there should be some way to allow a person to see the attached ID without clicking on it and getting moved off to that record. Maybe a different icon to just show the ID to which it is attached or for the appropriate ID to just be shown next to the icon. This latter would be even faster to verify where sources are attached.

    Thank you so much for all you do.

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