Posting multiple individuals to a source the way you can in documents.

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Isabel Ward said: When you attach a source from your source box that has more than one person in it, such as a marriage record, it would be helpful if you could attach all the people listed on this record the way you can with documents or photos rather than having to go back to family tree and switch to each individual and add that record from source box

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Stewart Millar said: I would add a note of caution in attaching source records from your source box.

You will note that the FamilySearch methodology for any source that has more than one person indexed on it - is to actually create multiple sources from that one originating source - so, a christening records will in FamilySearch, create a separately titled record for the child and one for the father and one for the mother - three separate source records linked to the originating source.

This is an example I like to follow when I attach my uploaded birth, marriage and death certificates - and to do this you must not use the source box as sources from the source box will only allow the same source title, notes and individual Tags to be attached to all occurrences of multiple attachments from the source box.

And if in the future you make any alteration to the source title or notes to any one of those attachments - those changes will be reflected in all the attachments it has been used for.

Instead the process I follow is to attach the same source document multiple times, once to each different individual concerned - each time changing the source title to suit the reason why that individual is recorded in the document . . . which creates a completely separate source within FT . . . and always taking care to un-tick the box for adding to the source box . . . and ticking the Tag boxes that apply to each person on the document, which can vary for each individual.

This is my way of doing it . . . others may have different ways of doing things - but you should consider the source box effects I have mentioned.

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Tom Huber said: If I understand what this patron wants

An automated system for sources they put in their source box that behaves in a similar manner to the source linker, which is used to attach FamilySearch Historical Records to persons in FamilySearch FamilyTree.

While that would be nice, it also points out the problem with any source that is manually created by a patron. There is no dictated structure that is similar to an indexed entry, where additional names are identified with their relationship to each other.

What would be needed is for each source to become fully indexed when it is created. Then, the source linker algorithms could be applied to the source, making it possible for the system to work the same way.

That is an interesting concept and worthy of consideration, in my opinion. But what patrons are willing to set up their sources in such a rigidly-required manner?

Computers may be "smart", but when it comes to artificial intelligence, that is still the realm of science fiction, despite claims to the contrary.

Throwing more computing power at a solution is one way to do it, but the code has to be written that sets up parsing rules. Some of that is in place today with printed obituary computer-generated indexes, but human intervention is still required to "fix" some of the errors generated in the process.

Still, I really like the idea that there can be a better method of setting up manual sources, which, of course, will require additional work on the part of the programmers of third-party software in order to continue to be certified.

It would also force us into an even more rigid sourcing model, and that is a problem in and of itself.

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Ron Tanner said: We do not require a different source for each person. We are fine attaching the same source from your source box to multiple people, especially if the source is about a a whole record that has multiple people on it.. It is only the Quick Attach feature that creates a different source for each person because they are using the URL to that specific person in the source. FamilySearch sources that have links to an individual person in the record prefers to attach each person URL to the proper person in the tree. This helps with some future features but is not necessary for non-FamilySearch sources.

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Chas Howell said: Steward, "...sources from the source box will only allow the same source title, notes and individual Tags to be attached to all occurrences of multiple attachments from the source box. And if in the future you make any alteration to the source title or notes to any one of those attachments - those changes will be reflected in all the attachments it has been used for. "

That is an excellent point. That caught me early on.

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Stewart Millar said: I appreciate that it is not a "requirement" to create a different unique source for each individual on a non-FamilySearch source and that the same non-FamilySearch source can be attached to multiple individuals mentioned on the source using the source box.

However, doing that means that you have to stick with the same Title, Notes and Source Tags on the source attached to each individual. The Source Tags should really need to be varied on certain types of documents. On the source title, I have a distinct preference of wanting to see in the source title why that individual that the source is attached to is actually appearing in this source document - i.e., maybe it is his own marriage or as a father in a child's marriage or as a witness or as a beneficiary or as an executor etc. etc. Therefore I opt to create a different source record for each individual where the Title, Notes and Tags can be specific to that individual.

I believe the list of Sources should help to tell the story for an ancestor and not merely be a jumbled list of formulae generated titles that fail to communicate why they are there and the specific date sequence (time-line) of events (hence I also edit and re-sequence all the FamilySearch source titles as well).

That may make me pedantic . . . but maybe if the attachment from the source box allowed for modifications to the Title, Notes and Tags (in effect creating multiple versions of the same source record) - that I would very much appreciate.

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Camille Michelle Busath McBride said: As far as I can tell, I can only attach my source to one person at a time. Is there a way to add outside sources and attach it to multiple people on my tree? If so, I haven't been able to find it, and I would love to be directed to it.