Possible duplicate view can fail to distinguish generations of "Children"
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Dane Alan Whitaker said: The possible duplicate comparison view as it now stands has an unfortunate issue: in the Family section, children of the person(s) in question are not well differentiated from children of the person's parents. This can create needless confusion (indeed it often does for me).
Imagine the following scenario. I am merging John Green (A) with John Green (B). The record for (A) has only a spouse and children, while (B) has only parents and their children--the siblings of (B). On the left side, the Family section shows Spouse and Children; on the right side, the Family section shows Parents and Children. Yet the Children are not the same--those on the left are the children of (A), while those on the right are the siblings of (B). This creates a false equivalence between left-side Children and right-side Children, who in fact belong to different generations. (B)'s siblings should perhaps be labeled as Siblings, or instead there might be some mark or indentation to better indicate that the right-side Children are Children of (B)'s Parents, not of (B) himself.
I can mentally correct for this as a user, but it would be simple and very nice to see it adjusted in the interface.
Imagine the following scenario. I am merging John Green (A) with John Green (B). The record for (A) has only a spouse and children, while (B) has only parents and their children--the siblings of (B). On the left side, the Family section shows Spouse and Children; on the right side, the Family section shows Parents and Children. Yet the Children are not the same--those on the left are the children of (A), while those on the right are the siblings of (B). This creates a false equivalence between left-side Children and right-side Children, who in fact belong to different generations. (B)'s siblings should perhaps be labeled as Siblings, or instead there might be some mark or indentation to better indicate that the right-side Children are Children of (B)'s Parents, not of (B) himself.
I can mentally correct for this as a user, but it would be simple and very nice to see it adjusted in the interface.
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Christina Sachs Wagner said: I had the same confusion with generations, today, in a merge.0
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gasmodels said: There can be confusion on the merge screen but if you just complete the merge everything will line up correctly. I agree that the display is confusing as things do not necessarily line up in the display.0
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Tom Huber said: This is something FamilySearch needs to address --
We need to be able to align the members of the family across from each other. This needs to work a little more like the source linker in that regard.0
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