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Having more options and tag names when taging resources in Family Tree

MJPulsipher
MJPulsipher ✭
August 29 in Suggest an Idea

I would like to suggest that there are more options given in the tags when taggin resources when adding names or just looking up family names and refreshing their sources.

I would suggest to add race, altername names, married names, and birth name so that it may save time to be able to do the tagging all at once instead of going back and forth in some instances.

Thank you

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 29 edited August 29

    I think you're talking about using Source Linker to add tags for things other than what's in the Vitals box, right?

    You can see on the Beta site that they're working on an update to Source Linker. (It has been around since 2014, after all.)

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    It looks like they're planning to hide the Vitals tags under an extra layer of interface (for some inexplicable reason), but I don't see any indication of Other Information tags. I've used the Feedback tab on the Beta page to ask about why not.

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  • Gordon Collett
    Gordon Collett ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 29

    Oh, dear. I've thought for years that a big problem with the source linker is that too many people don't do any evaluation of the default tags. If a person has a hundred sources and all hundred are tagged to the name, for example, that really defeats the entire purpose of tagging, as I view it, to focus the most important sources for a piece of information on that information.

    Hiding what is being tagged is just going to make that excessive tagging worse.

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