Changing citation content
Hello,
Recently, while updating some family-affiliated profiles and attaching records, I noticed that the information contained in the citation title is very misleading, and if not examined per record image, would be very easy to attach to the incorrect profiles. Unfortunately, the portion of the citation title containing the content in need of correction, is not available to FamilySearch members. See below:
*"Canada, Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927", database with images, FamilySearch
(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FMNW-PGP : Thu Oct 19 16:54:30 UTC 2023), Entry for Robert Alen Boyd and William Boyd, 25 Mar 1876.
The citation names Eliza as the groom's mother, for the groom and bride
The citation should read “Eliza, in an entry for Robert Alen Boyd and Lillian Sharpe, 25 Mar 1876”
*"Canada, Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKWF-VJ6 : Fri Oct 13 23:25:13 UTC 2023), Entry for William Stevens Boyd and William Carson Boyd, 02 Jan 1927.
The citation names the decedent as William Stevens Boyd, and lists the names of his parents in the record (Willliam Carson Boyd and Eliza Thom)
The citation should read “Eliza Thom, in an entry for William Stevens Boyd”
The goal here is merely to optimize the process of identifying and attaching records to the correct profile(s).
Thank you,
Joachim Hawn
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Thank you for your time and attention.
Joachim Hawn
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That's just the auto-citation. It's often full of nonsense and is generally missing the actually-useful bits, such as film and image number; if the URL fails in any way, then that citation is never going to get you back to the record in question. This is an unfortunate fact of life, not just on FS. (None of the automatically-generated citations I've seen on genealogy websites have included all of the information that I think they need, and they all include things that serve no purpose that I can see.)
The title that gets generated by Source Linker when you attach those index entries to Family Tree profiles follows the format that you suggest, and is fully user-editable. Source entries also have a Notes/Description field; I try to add the missing details there (although it gets Highly Tedious, given the one-profile-per-entry structure, so I'm happy if the principal person's entry is robust).
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