Can you make relationship sources show up under the main source tab?
I came across a couple with detailed marriage information that came from a source that was attached under their Couple Relationship. Unfortunately, people can ONLY see that source if they click to edit the couple's marriage date. The source does not show up on the main source tab for either member of the relationship so at first glance it appears to be unsourced. (If you click to view the marriage info it also says there's no source—it ONLY shows if you attempt to edit relationship info.) Is there a reason that relationship sources aren't included with the sources for the individual? Can that be changed so that those sources aren't hidden?
Example: GL7B-5V3 Jacob Tews and his wife Marya Kuehn both say they have zero sources attached. However, there IS a source attached for their marriage info. It is hidden in their relationship sources, which a casual user might not know to look for.
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Sadly no you can't, there has been much discussion here previously about this (and ditto for child/parent relationships). The third party tools I have used (RootsMagic, Ancestral Quest) do work sensibly with FS couple relationship sources, but even they ignore child/parent ones.
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Kind of a workaround, you can go to each spouse's detail page and navigate to the the source and attach it to their respective profile. Also if the marriage source is in your source box, you can attach it from there.
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It's all very longhand, nontransparent, and doesn't happen automatically, but you can copy the source from the marriage, first to your Source Box, and then from there to the couple's individual Sources lists. You can also (tediously, with many senselessly-extra steps) tag the marriage source to the marriage, so that clicking on the date-and-place doesn't say zero any more.
But as Mandy says, the way that FS's Tree handles relationships is a repeated topic of complaint.
There are multiple ways to get a copy of a source into your Source Box; one way is to click the source title, click "VIEW", and then click "COPY TO SOURCE BOX".
Adding a source from your Source Box to a profile's Sources list can likewise be accomplished in multiple ways. Starting from the Sources tab of a profile, click +ADD SOURCE, choose Attach From Source Box, find the source (if it's not at the top), click ATTACH, and click ATTACH again.
Tagging a marriage source to the marriage:
Click the pencil to the right of the marriage.
Scroll down on the popup to the Sources line.
Click the source to open it.
Click +ADD TAG.
Click +ADD TAG again.
Click +MARRIAGE.
Click the marriage.
Click SAVE.5 -
Perhaps I am an exception here, but I never (knowingly) add sources to the couple, only to them individually. This means I have never encountered this problem. For a good percentage of profiles I've added to Family Tree, at the top of their Sources sections I place their "Vitals" sources: Birth / Baptism, then Marriage(s), then Death / Burial.
I'm afraid I never got the hang of tagging (my loss probably), so use the individual's Sources page in conjunction with the Details page, in order to cross-reference the details and make sure everything matches up.
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@Paul W, if you've used Source Linker, then you may be surprised by how many sources you're credited with adding to couple relationships. It's not just indexed marriages that Linker sometimes silently adds there: I keep finding death records and children's birth records, too. It's basically totally unpredictable, though. Sometimes a marriage ends up everywhere but the couple popup, because Source Linker takes indexes as Gospel, and is an absolute literalist to boot: if the event is labeled "marriage registration", then it cannot possibly belong under "marriage"….
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