South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church Registers (Cape Town Archives), 1660-1970
Image for Ryk Johan Joubert 1883-1925 is not available.
If I look up a record/image on my family's (the name above) source records, there is a message " Unfinished attachments / Dismiss".
If I click on it, it takes me to the new Help pane:
My Question: What steps should I follow if there is no Image Available?
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That looks like a weird sketch of the new version of the Source Linker. It has nothing whatsoever to do with FS's help functions; it's just the tool for attaching indexed records to profiles in the Family Tree.
The "Unfinished Attachments" notice appears on a profile's Sources list if an index entry is in a group with some entries that have not been attached to a corresponding Tree profile. This can happen for several reasons, such as if someone didn't finish working on a family, or if the index grouping contains unidentified people. If you look things up and determine that the unattached people in the index cannot reasonably be identified and attached in the Tree, then you can dismiss the notice.
When the image isn't available, it becomes difficult to look things up and make determinations, but the message only appears if a user trusted the index enough to attach at least one of its entries to a profile. If you share that trust, and can tell who the other people in the index represent, then you can go ahead and attach those entries to the corresponding profiles. If you don't share that trust, you have two choices: ignore the notice, or dismiss it.
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This is the new Help function:
And this is the person whose source I am looking up:
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Oh, I see: you meant the little Help popup for the Source Linker tool. That's just help for how to use the tool to link up index entries to profiles; it doesn't address topics like image availability or the evaluation of evidence.
Unfortunately, the film in question is not online, probably due to privacy laws, as it contains baptisms from not quite a full century ago (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/959223).
I found this information by going to the profile of one of the parents (https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/LD5N-B2D). I clicked the Sources tab, found the source with the "unfinished" notice, and clicked its title to expand it. Then I clicked the link labeled "Web Page (Link to the Record)", which opened the index detail page in another tab (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6N8L-SCQ2). On that page, I expanded the Document Information in the left-hand column and copied the film/image group number from the line labeled "Digital Folder Number".
Then I went to the Catalog and pasted that number into the "Film/Fiche/Image Group Number (DGS)" search field.
I don't know by what criteria the other user attached the source to the parents (but not the daughter); perhaps he has an LDS account on FS and has different access rights than what I see with a public account? Either that, or he's one of the many who mistakenly believe that indexes are somehow magically always correct. Or that "matching name" must always mean "matching person"....
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Thank you Julia for all your investigation. I did the same and it seems it will never be compared until the source is available to the public.
There are so many errors in this batch of 1660-1970, and I'm only talking about the ones that are open to the public. I can spend days correcting spelling errors. I only hope by doing this, the possible duplicates will be less than usual.
I am corresponding with a family member to help and confirm that the daughter with different names is the same person. Rykie might be a nickname for her.
Regards
Hester
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