Please show the last three or four sources added...
Please show the last three or four sources added. When I add a source to a family record, I very often want to add the same source to many members of the same family but have to click through multiple times to add. If you show the last few sources I've used, I could then click on the pertinent source and save a great deal of time.
Can you do that?
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Your Source Box is ordered by date added, newest on top, unless you rearrange it using folders, so attaching your newest source citation to all of the relevant profiles should be easy from there. Or is that not what you're talking about?
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Hi Julia,
Thanks for your response. Yes, that's how I add sources. But it's a 5-step process:
1) Click on "Add Source"
2) Click on "Attach from Source Box"
3) Click "Attach" for the appropriate source
4) Click "Attach" on the pop-up window
5) Click on name to return to record
My suggestion is to show the last 3 sources used when I click on "Add Source" so the source appears in the dropdown box. That would save 4 steps and make my work go much faster. Does Family Search take suggestions?
Thanks
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Oh, you mean like a "Recents" list for "Add Source"? I'd never thought of that.
You can make suggestions to FS in the "Suggest an Idea" section of this Community. It's near the bottom of the Categories box in the right-hand column.
But back to your "bulk attachments" question, have you explored the relatively-recent new capabilities of your Source Box? If you open your box from your account (by clicking your name-and-initial at the top right of main FS pages and choosing Source Box) rather than from a profile, then each source has an Attach button that allows you to choose a profile by name, by ID, or from your recents list. It's still a bunch of clicks for each attachment (because what in FS isn't?), but if you have a relevant profile open in another tab from which to copy the IDs, it goes pretty quickly. I find it's the best method for many-person records like marriages where you recognize both witnesses (eight people to attach to) or funeral notices (sometimes dozens of people, if it names all of the great-grandkids). It's kind of the reverse of your suggestion, but makes use of the already-existing list of recent profiles instead of needing to create such a list for sources.
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Thanks
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Julia Szent-Györgyi That is a great tip. I always go to the person and attach from the source box. I will definitely try your method next time. Question, though. I recently had a family with 2 Franks for sons, different MIs, and clearly the person who did it wasn't sure which was correct. Nor was I at first. As I was researching that family group for another purpose, one of the first things I did was sort out the 2 Franks and then clean up the sources for each. Several census records for the family group were attached to the wrong Frank, and I could not attach them to the correct Frank until I removed them from the incorrect Frank. Always mindful of angry people noticing missing sources, I researched and added the correct censes records to the "other" Frank. Removing sources was a pain. So, my question is, if I had used your method when I was re-arranging census records for the 2 Franks, could I have skipped the removal part? Would it have let me add it to all parties in the source automatically?? I hope that is clear. I would have used attach by ID.
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@Gail Swihart Watson, since the only way to get an existing source citation from a profile into your source box is to copy it there, which makes a disconnected new instance of it, with "Copy of..." added to the title, I don't think the system would complain about the original instance being already attached elsewhere. However, it sounds like you're mostly working with indexed records, which is a whole 'nother kettle of fish -- you use Source Linker for those, not your Source Box. (Yes, Source Linker will cheerfully add them all to your Source Box if you forget to uncheck the checkbox, but given that index-entry-based source citations are all meant to apply to a single person, I don't understand the purpose of doing so.)
Other people here are more familiar with Source Linker's capabilities; I know that it is very flexible, if a little unpredictable-seeming to occasional users like me, and that it, too, can find the person to attach to using the profile's ID. (It tends to be the "when all else fails" option, such as when the index messed up the relationships so badly that you can't get SL to bring up the right person after multiple tries.)
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Julia Szent-Györgyi Yes, you are correct, I was working mostly with census records. The only source I deliberately put on both the correct and incorrect Frank was the death index which showed them both listed side by side and with different death dates. So, from there I easily found the correct parents for the incorrect Frank (... you are following this??? LOL ) and then had to rearrange the other sources. I tried to use Source linker. That stopped me and wouldn't let me add to the correct Frank. Edited: Then I went to the census record itself where you could see it was linked to the wrong Frank. That didn't work either. Since I was researching the whole family and lineage of the correct Frank, I already had the census records in my source box because there were new family members to add. Some were successfully added in the source linker view, the in-law residents of the house I had to add separately as I couldn't get source linker to work with them. So, if I had realized to try the attach function there, maybe it would have worked. Anyway, I will certainly remember the source box as a location to attach multiple instances of a source with fewer clicks.
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