Source linker with Find a Grave source.

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Nolan Bateman said: Hi

Is it just today, or did source linker drop adding death date when adding Find a Grave source. See GWJB-SZQ for example. I previously added date. You will see the death event has no source tag.

I have always had to add place from source, but it was nice to have the date and reason statement fill in. In this case since I put in death info in first the reason statement and burial one is different.

The same with his mothers record.

Nolan

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Jeff Wiseman said: There's definitely something screwy going on. If you examine the index data as shown in the source list, there are *NO* dates given:



But if you look at what the source linker thinks is there:



For a while, you used to be able to identify where a source should tag to (the default was always everything). They may have changed something on that.

You are probably aware that you can add the tag manually yourself but your question seems slightly different from that.

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Nolan Bateman said: I left the tagging etc. undone so you could see the results.

I also did several under FAG sources later with results I am used to getting. And some with this problem.

I wish the death place could also be picked up and added, but that is another topic I think.

Thanks for looking at it, Nolan

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Jeff Wiseman said: Well I"m not a FS employee, so let's hope that one of them spots this topic. I think I saw something very much like this months ago. I rarely use the source linker for bringing data across because there has always seemed to be this kind of flakiness with it. I open a separate window with the person's details and manually enter things there.

But that's just me.