Record hints suddenly disappeared
I had just been examining three record hints for sources that might have applied to the profile in question. I noticed that the place name on a tagged (1871 census) item was incorrectly formatted (Bethnal Green, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom instead of the correct - for period - Bethnal Green, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - so standardized it. Then, whilst looking at the Research Help page, the hints just vanished! I assume it was because the "London" that appeared in the suggested sources no longer had a "match" with the changed place name (which no longer included "London", of course).
Hopefully, I will be able to rediscover these sources, as I know they referred to the death of a possible son of the individual who had lived in the London / Middlesex area up to around 1871 - even though the death took place in Texas in the 1890s.
However, just a warning to any user about to add a (likely) source to a profile: make sure you note the detail, or make sure you don't make any changes to the profile before you decide to add it! Actually, I believe I have seen this kind of behaviour previously, though can't confirm if the circumstances were the same / similar.
Oh, and yes, I did put the place name back to how it was before those record hints disappeared, but that didn't bring them back.
UPDATE! I have very quickly discovered the disappearing suggested sources! I carried out a simple search on the individual (born London, 1862) and they came up under the Results. In fact they have already been attached to a duplicate of this individual, which another user had created in 2018. (He had, as expected, emigrated from the London area to Texas in the 1880s).
My main point still applies, however - in a blink of an eye record hints (under Research Help on the Details page) can just disappear, perhaps after one "slight" change to the profile concerned.
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I agree with your comment. I have experienced this before when hints I thought probably correct have disappeared after making a minor change to a profile.
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I have occasionally seen hints disappear when all I did was open them in the Source Linker, then close the linker tab without updating anything.
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