Why can't I tag a source to a marriage event?
What are the three main sources to a person's life? Birth, Marriage and Death. I don't understand why we can't tag a source to a marriage event. It is really frustrating not to be able to tag a source to a marriage or divorce.
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I absolutely agree! It's not only frustrating but bad genealogy when you can't tag a source to an event. All it would entail is to add marriage to the tag options when you add a marriage source. Why can't this be programmed in?
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You can tag a marriage source attached to a couple relationship, but not one attached to an individual spouse's profile.
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You can tag a marriage to a source — if you're in the "couple relationship" section where FS segregates marriages.
They need to completely re-do that part of their framework if they want it to work anything like everyone expects it to work. I don't know if anyone's even working on it.
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Yes! FamilySearch, please update this feature so we can tag marriages more easily. It would be nice to have it work like the tagging features for other event types. Please and thank you!
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I've previously Suggested an Idea that sources should all be manageable in the same way from the Sources tab whether they are profile or relationship sources. It's been stuck in Idea moderation limbo since November.
I do think it is important that marriages and divorces are seen and tagged as belonging to couple relationships rather than to profiles, though. Relationships are as important as profiles to the accuracy of the tree (I'd actually say more so), and are already quite sufficiently made to look like afterthoughts by the FSFT user interface.
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You can add a source to the relationship source area if it's in your source box, but that's a stupid kludge. This really needs to be reworked.
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Unfortunately FS clearly do not see any of this as a priority, or, I suspect, even as a problem. And Suggest an Idea appears to be on indefinite hold.
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@SerraNola would it be possible to get a statement from the FS developers on any plans they may have for improving relationship (and specifically relationship source) handling within the FSFT UI, please?
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@MandyShaw1 I think you are right that they may not see this as a problem and thus not a priority. As I mentioned in a previous post I don't deal with any of the FamilyTree engineering teams. I strictly work with issues in search and images.
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Ah ok thanks @SerraNola. It would be appreciated if you could pass this one also on to the relevant person.
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