Sources Upgrade
Family search has done really great at the memories gallery and their pictures. Basically when I upload a picture from the picture I can tag every person in the picture and I don't have to go to each individual person and tag them but I can do that from the picture. This same concept needs to be done with sources. When I upload a source I should be able to tag everyone in the source from the source, instead of having to go to each individual person from the source box and tagging them I should be able to do it from the source itself.
One potential issue I see with this that is less of a problem of pictures. Is duplicate sources which is more annoying for sources than pictures and memories. However, they should dedicate more resources to making adding sources better like they have done with memories and pictures.
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I agree completely about duplicate sources being an annoying issue. I have tried deleting duplicate sources only to have them reappear. I now try to title the extras as "duplicates". I suggest that FamilySearch add the capability to collapse multiple sources into one -- not to delete any, but just to show only one on the sources page with a button to expand to see them all. For instance, I have over 12 sources for one marriage -- index records, licence records, marriage records, microfilmed at different times or different source (e.g., transcribed by different people into different historical books) -- so if the person marries multiple times it gets overwhelming!! It would be nice to have one source entry for this, and then under that have the capability of looking at the others (they need not be deleted, as some might have slightly different information, such as a different reading of the handwriting, etc).
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Source Linker is supposed to allow you to link the same source to all the people. I can't recall (on phone today) - but I think it also has the option to lookup PID? But I don't disagree - maybe tagging would be easier.
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