Serious editing issue -- needs addressed immediately.
I was reviewing the family of Robert Thompson McGinnis (G8NZ-7YX). Records were indicating that Robert had at least two wives. Margaret Swisher (KC5W-Z5N), and Lydia Hole (L4P9-4VX). One child was identified as a child of Robert and Margaret. Three (or maybe four?) of the children were identified as children of Robert and Lydia. Leaving at least three of the children with an unidentified mother.
One of the documents for Alexander McGinnis (L4Q1-VWD) indicated that Margaret was also his mother. Attaching that single document to Margaret suddenly swept all of the Robert's children under that one family. The edit should have just connected the single document to Margaret, but instead — it severed the parental relationship with Lydia and all of her children, and migrated 7 children into a relationship with Margaret as mother.
Meaning that the smallest changes right now can produce sweeping, damaging edits to the entire tree. Meaning that FamilySearch right now is severely broken.
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Were you using the new source linker? This sounds very concerning (I looked at the pages mentioned and can see the changes). A phone call might be in order but it is Conference. Normally issues with the new source linker would be reported here: https://community.familysearch.org/en/group/324-new-source-linker-feedback
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Very strange. The source linker itself shouldn't be doing any such editing of profile pages. First question would be, is this reproducible? If you detach the source from everyone, put all the kids back where they belong, then, while taking a screen shot of every single step so it can be traced exactly what is happening on your device, re-attaching the source, does this happen again and at what point?
Months ago when the new source linker just came out, I did run across a situation where the display in the source linker got confused and listed children under the wrong parent. I hope the fix for that didn't make things worse.
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@vjdavis - thank you for that link. I'll see what I can do with that. And yes, I had forgotten that I had switched to the new linker.
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