Adding Family Member On Next Page of Census

Zina Urrutia

I was not able to figure out how to drag and drop a name from one page to the next. In the 1930s census a family was started on one page and a son was listed on the top of another. I tried to add the son because when it was indexed he was left off. It directed me to go to the split screen which I did and then it directed me to drag and drop the name. I was not able to find the tool that would allow me to do this. I was not able to figure out how to add him to his family. Perhaps this is something that can be made easier to accomplish. I have made notes on the account. Please let me know if this is ever changed as I would like to be able to do this. I am not sure if I am allowed to write in the specific name of the people involved here so I have not included this information.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

I don't think the "drag names" feature is working quite fully. At any rate, it appears to be completely unable to work across images.

I was, however, able to unify a family in the 1930 census using the "Add Or Remove Fields" button/process, without touching the "Drag Names" function. I apologize that I didn't do screenshots or take notes; I was kind of making it up as I went and wasn't at all certain that any of it would work. (I do wish the new editor had a presence on the beta site so we could experiment with it properly. I don't understand the reasoning behind rolling it out half-baked like this.)

So, the steps, as best I remember:

1. Go to the head of household's entry and click the edit (pencil) button on his relationships.

2. Scroll down to the bottom, click "Is the information on another page?", scroll down some more, and click "Open Split-Screen Mode". Select the next image and adjust the zoom and pan so you can read all of the relevant names.

3. On the right-hand panel, scroll up and click the red "Add Or Remove Fields" button/link.

4. On the resulting popup, click the relevant bubbles until the top part has one for every missing family member. For example, the one I fixed has the father (head) at the bottom of one image, and his wife and three children at the top of the next, so I clicked the Spouse bubble once and the Child bubble three times. Click Save Fields to close the popup.

5. For each of the new fields, find the correct name in the drop-down. Because of step 2, all of the names from two images should be available. To find and select a name, you can just scroll (and scroll and scroll) and then click, or you can start typing the name (as it was indexed) to shorten the list.

6. If it comes up with the popup about needing to remove existing relationships, tell it to go ahead. (This happens if the partial family was grouped on the next page, just not with the people on the previous one.)

7. Once all of the new relationship fields have been filled, click Save Changes.