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Source Linker Is Not Displaying Correct Place Names

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August 7, 2020 edited September 28, 2020 in Suggest an Idea
Jeff Wiseman said: When you bring up the source Linker window that shows the contents of the source compared to the vitals conclusions in the FamilyTree database, it is NOT showing the actual conclusions (i.e., those values that are displayed on the details page).

It appears that for some bizarre reason, the Source Linker is displaying all of the standard place names that are being used to standardize the actual vital conclusions INSTEAD of the actual conclusions themselves. I thought that this was reported many weeks ago, but there has been no change.

Besides being extremely irritating, it's completely backward. The whole idea here is to produce accurate CONCLUSIONS for the vitals! It really doesn't matter what standard place names that you need to use to give those conclusions approximate geo-coordinates. That is totally incidental to the process.

Please give us back the old source linker function that would actually show the true vital conclusions on the right hand side of the linker the way that it used to. Showing the sources that are used to standardize those values without even showing the conclusion values is pretty worthless in a tool that is designed for comparing those CONCLUSIONS with the contents of sources for the purposes of attaching them together.

Here's the source linker window side-by-side with the actual person details page. No amount of refreshes will fix this:

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    August 7, 2020
    Jordi Kloosterboer said: I agree: the actual display place name should show up.
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