Source Box - Source's attachedto page enhancement
Attaching a source takes time. It is great to have the option of a source in the source box to attach it to other individuals when you go to them in the tree. But the problem is just that, if you have a source you created storing it in your source box and need to add it to 6 other people: you would have to go to each individual and attach the source individually. As you may imagine this begins to get unrealistic the more individuals you have involved that you need to add a source to.
Here is an example: Igreja Paroquial de São Pedro (São Pedro, concelho da Ponta Delgada, ilha do São Miguel, Açores, Portugal), Registos de Óbitos 1900-1911, Livro 1910 - Death of Georgina Martins 7 June 1910
Those this source would need to be attached to:
- Georgina
- Father: João Martins
- Mother: Alexandrina de Jesus
- Fathers Father: Antonio Martins
- Fathers Mother: Jacintha Julia
- Mothers Father: Jacintho Martins
- Mothers Mother: Maria de San Pedro
The birth record and death record have the same individuals to attach. Under how it is currently designed at the time of this submission, I would have to go to every single individual and add the record manually from the source box. Now imagine the family had 5 children who had birth and death records with the same number of individuals that need to be attached. I would have to click on a different individual approximately 70 times performing manual attaching of the sources from the source box.
As this example illustrates, this is far from ideal. The only real way I can see around it is having something like add source to another individual button in the source box, or have a similar button locatable after source creation.
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You can approach from the other end and achieve what you're looking for: your account Source Box page has the capability to attach each source to any profile, which you can identify by name, by ID, or by choosing it from your Recents list.
So, for Georgina's death record, add it to your source box your usual way, but then instead of navigating to each relative, leave Georgina's pedigree (landscape/portrait or fan chart) open in one tab, where you can easily grab each relevant ID. Then open any main-site FS page in another tab, click your name at the top right, and choose Source Box.
Once you're on your account's Source Box page, find the source you need to attach -- if you just created it, it'll normally be right at the top -- and click the Attach button next to it. On the popup, choose By ID, then go to the browser tab with Georgina's pedigree chart, find and copy the ID of one of the relatives, then go back to the other tab and paste the ID into the box. Click through to attach the source, then repeat for each of the other relatives.
Yes, it's a little bit tedious, but it's much easier than going to each person's Sources tab -- and it's far, far easier than trying to cite a source from multiple profiles on any other genealogy site (or program, for that matter).
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I agree. It'd be great to have the ability to attach user-added sources to additional people while viewing the source. There's already a window that shows who it's attached to and allows detaching, but should also allow attaching similar to what can be done in Memories. And for existing sources added by other users, it's worse because if you want the same source attached to additional people, or to move it to a different person, you have to make a copy of it your Source Box and then delete the original.
In a situation where I have to add a something from the Source Box to multiple people, I'll open each person it a separate tab, then use Ctrl-Tab with my left hand to switch between them and click with my right, like a factory line. "Sources", "Add Source". "Attach From Source Box" and the "Attach" buttons are always in the same location, so I don't have to move the mouse between profiles.
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