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Julia Szent-Györgyi
Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
August 26, 2022 edited July 12, 2024 in Family Tree

I know from long experience never to take Source Linker up on an offer of a "baptism", because it will be filed as a Custom Event under Other Information, like some sort of embarrassing tidbit, instead of as a Christening under Vitals where it belongs. However, I was using Source Linker with the interface language set to Hungarian, and I noticed that the event was labeled with exactly the same word as the one in the Vitals box: keresztelés.

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So just to see what would happen, I decided to take Source Linker up on its offer. The event was labeled keresztelés throughout the process.

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However, the result was the same as in English -- down to the English word "baptism" as the custom event's title.

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I'm trying to imagine what a non-English-speaking user would make of this: Source Linker offers an X, and says it's creating an X, but it's lying: the field labeled X remains unchanged, and there's a new field in a totally different place with a totally different label.

Please, FamilySearch, stop making this nonsensical distinction. It doesn't exist in any other language.

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    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 27, 2022

    Aaaargh!

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