Creating a source for a marriage
Greetings, I am wondering why when a source is created for a marriage, the souce is not added to the list of sources for the person. To me, it seems logical for all the sources to be listed together.
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I have not figured out the reasoning behind or the intended workflow of the couple relationships section. I complained about it this summer in the New Person Page group: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/165203/oy-the-convolutions-involved-in-getting-a-marriage-entered-and-sourced#latest.
That's the other direction from what you're talking about, but it's caused by the same thing: the inexplicable sequestration of the relationship from the rest of the profile. Adding a source to the relationship doesn't add it to either of the individual profiles, and when adding a source to the individual profiles, there is zero control or visibility into what Source Linker does or doesn't put in the relationship's sources.
Until/unless they fix the relationship section to better connect to the rest of the page, my only suggestion is to make good use of your Source Box: when you create a source for a relationship, always make sure to put a check in the "Add to My Source Box" checkbox. Ditto when using Source Linker to attach a source that's relevant to a relationship. This is the one (and really only) time where that checkbox is actually useful in that tool. (Granted, Murphy's Law states that if I remember the checkbox, then Source Linker silently/invisibly adds the source to the relationship. It's inevitably when I forget that it doesn't.)
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