Residence sources all zeroed out

AaronWalker8

Hi, I'm browsing around in some of my stuff, and I'm noticing that a lot, if not all, of the source links for Residence information (usually linked to census doc) are zero. What's going on, because fixing that would be a huge pain. I've done a lot of this, look at my stats.

Thanks!

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

@AaronWalker8
The addition of tagging for residences is a relatively new change in the FS tree. All those sources were attached before that tagging was enabled.

Link to a thread from early 2023, when the feature was still very new: https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/141698/new-person-pages-did-not-carry-over-source-tags

Alan E. Brown

@AaronWalker8 As @Áine.ní.Donnghaile noted, tagging of non-vital conclusions was added fairly recently (perhaps about 3 years ago). And then after it was added, there was a time when the source linker didn't automatically add tags to the for those non-vital conclusions. But then the source linker was updated to add those tags. If you look at Residence events that have been attached recently (in the last year or two — I don't remember exactly when the source linker began adding those tags), you'll see that the source tags for Residence are present because they are now added automatically.

If the Residence events were added before the source linker started adding tags automatically (such as in your screen shot where the Residence events were added in 2020), someone will need to manually add those source tags for the events (and the same with any other non-vital conclusions).

Áine.ní.Donnghaile

Thanks for confirming, @Alan E. Brown.

I, too, had no precise date for the changeover, but I knew it was more recent than the dates in the screenshot posted by @AaronWalker8

Nyx773

@AaronWalker8
In addition to source connections not being automatic before circa March 2023, there is also a bug in the software in which the connection randomly does not occur.
Going forward, if you attach a source and it does not connect to an event, then please report it on this discussion:

https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/186373/tagged-information-imported-with-source-linker-don-039-t-link-to-the-source

Alan E. Brown

@Nyx773 That's a good reminder. However, less than an hour after you made that comment, in the thread that you linked to, that occasional bug was reported as fixed. So hopefully there will be no need to use that thread. But if by chance the bug recurs, it's helpful to have that link.