Suggested comments for Reason boxes are wonderful!
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Elizabeth Watkins said: FamilySearch keeps getting better! Thanks for the suggested comments to put into the Reason boxes. Automatically including the ID codes of the people involved is a stroke of genius. If the prewritten comment doesn't exactly fit the circumstance, it can be modified, and the ID codes are already there to make it easy! I think more people will take the time to add a meaningful reason for their changes, now that they have a quick and efficient way to do it. I certainly will.
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Lynne Stanley said: I saw that today and I love it! Merges can be time-consuming and by the end of it, sometimes I just want to avoid doing the merge because my brain is fried to write out the "Reason".0
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Carol Jo Menges said: I agree! This is a great tool! Having a choice of likely reasons that a merge is made saves a lot of time. For me, it also saves the possibility that my self-designed reason won't satisfy another researcher who might not only ask me why I made that choice--which is reasonable--but will go on and on to argue the point because he/she feels differently about the whole thing and insists I should change my opinion to fit his/hers. I'm not interested in the "genealogy wars". They're few and far these between lately (thank goodness), but they do exist, and sometimes they're not pleasant. Sooooooo, this choice thing will probably well for me. Somebody may still believe only their own point of view is the right one, but I believe a great deal of possible irritation on both sides is going to be eliminated.0
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Carol Jo Menges said: Hmmm... It's late and there are several typos in my just-typed comment. One thing I'd like to see here is a way to edit what we write. Hope what I wrote makes sense, regardless.0
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A van Helsdingen said: If you put the cursor over a comment you have written, in the top right options to delete and edit will appear. But once someone comments or makes a new reply, you can no longer edit. This is so you can't edit what you said after someone else has responded to or debated points you have made. For example, you can no longer edit your latest reply as a result of this comment, but I edited this comment twice while writing it.0
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DougHo said: I'm glad if they work for some, and I'll have to re-read the default choices sometime but I don't think I like them much myself. They are so prominent it seems like people will often click one instead of explaining, and there is so much emphasis on the IDs which are easily available in the log. And the mention of vitals, which is often the reason I find mistaken merges. It is easy for someone to end up with changed vitals, so what you need to depend on more for merges is the original intent of the person such as their relationships. You might have researched/documented two siblings and in the tree those two have same named parents but those parents are separate/duplicates. So you research that there was not something like the woman's maiden name and death date so you know the man didn't marry more than one woman with the same first name. Then you merge the parents. Or similarly you find someone who has been created with parents names from a marriage record, and while researching such as finding other (census?) sources with the person together with their parents, you run across a tree entry that has the parents as a couple with good sources/vitals. So you merge the parents together, and again the reason is the relationships more than the vitals (which might have only gotten entered by yourself).0
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Carol Jo Menges said: I'm going to have to try that. Thanks for the tip! -- I just did and I think I understand now. Right click on the comment, click Undo, and fix it. Is that what you meant?0
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Carol Jo Menges said: Oh!!! No, it's different! OK, after finishing the comment, the edit link shows up. How could I have missed that... Just because I was tired, I guess. Thanks again!0
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Carol Jo Menges said: It's a hover over the comment that brings up the right to edit, not a click until Edit shows up. Got it!0
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Carol Jo Menges said: Delete too.0
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