Please help! Why are the sources not automatically linked to events anymore?

KDKnight64

I want to yell and pull my hair out! Why are the sources not automaticaly linked to events when you use the source linker? I'm fit to be tied at the extra work that I now have to do when it use to be automatic!

I've even found where sources that were previously linked to an individual(s) event, obits, censuses, marriages etc., are now no longer there and I have to go back to each event birth, death, marriage, burial, census info and find each source that was "tagged" and link it to each of the events. This is absolute nuts! For instance; Edwin John Joyce, https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GCYS-Z5Q

Under his residenceses there are no sources linked. I have to guess which source goes with which residence. Some are easy to guess, given the year aka census but others are not so easy. This is incredibly time consuming and exhausting!

Why did Family Search change this to make it even harder to build our family trees or am I just missing a step somewhere in the source linker? Please help! I'm about to give up on Family Search and I’ve been using it for many years! 😫

Thank you

Julia Szent-Györgyi

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The ability to link sources with things like residences is brand new in FS. It wasn't automatic previously: it didn't even exist previously.

You are not alone in this misconception or false memory. I think it's caused by the new "0 Sources" notation after conclusions in the Other Information section. In the prior version of the person page, those conclusions made no reference anywhere to sources, so naturally, they didn't say "0 Sources", either.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Why did Family Search change this to make it even harder to build our family trees or am I just missing a step somewhere in the source linker?

No change was made.

Maile L

Mod note- all caps (code violation) were removed.

Gordon Collett

You are not alone in misinterpreting this great new feature in Family Tree where we can tag Other Information for the first time ever as a step back. It is only giving you more work because previously it could not be done at all. I put some information about this on another person's post about this topic: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/149173/automatic-source-tagging-for-linked-census-records#latest

By the way, tagging sources is completely optional. It is handy for the next user to come along and be able to click right on a census under Other Information and see the source for that census, but they can still find the source on the Sources tab without much work at all. If you find it is too much work to go back and add these new tags to Other Information data, then don't. Or get any young relatives you have involved and pawn it off on them. This would be a great project for a twelve year old just getting started in Family History. You can give very clear instructions:

1. Do not change any information.
2. Click on a piece of information in the Other Information section, not on the edit pencil.
3. Click on Tag Sources
4. Find the sources that include the information and check the box next to them. (Feel free to open the source and look at all the information and images.)
5. Let me know if there are no sources for that piece of information so we can find one!
6. Click Save.

It would be a great way to get him or her fascinated with their family without worrying about any accidental editing.