Search Filter on Attached or Non-Attached Records

LegacyUser

Charles E Sibre said: Suggest you add a search filter for attached vs non-attached records. I am doing a 'single name study' on the surname SIBRE, and I am going through all records with this surname and attaching the record hit to existing persons or creating new persons as appropriate. With about 1,450 record hits, it would be great to filter out already attached records. I have done this on other surnames too, e.g. SIBREE. Your decision if records attached incompletely would be in attached or non-attached categories. Thanks for entertaining this suggestion, Charles

LegacyUser

Paul said: Do you mean like this? The screenshot shows the tree symbol against records that have already been attached to an individual. If your idea is to completely filter these out, you would be missing out on those records that might belong to your relatives, but have been incorrectly attached to other persons.

LegacyUser

Charles E Sibre said: I know you show the tree symbol to show the records that are attached. I would like to have the user-controlled option to filter out the attached records and be shown just the non-attached records, so that I could try to attach them. For example, I think I am down to under 100 non-attached records out of the 1450+ surname SIBRE records. Finding the non-attached ones is very hard now. Charles

LegacyUser

Paul said: Yes, I can see how helpful this would be, Charles. However, I have found so many sources with the tree symbol alongside that have been wrongly attached to completely unrelated IDs. How would you pick-up on these (to detach from the existing ID and attach to your own relative) if you were only looking for sources that had not been attached at all?

LegacyUser

Charles E Sibre said: I would not catch the error you mention. Charles

WDavid72

I very much agree with this request. I've made some stabs at regional attachment -- trying to attach records from a specific county -- and hit the same issue. It gets very difficult to slog through page after page of already attached records to find one or two unattached records. Having an optional toggle to hide attached records would quickly show what has never been attached to any profile. (To answer Paul's question -- reviewing whether the documents have been attached to the "correct" individual, or whether certain profiles need to be merged is another task altogether. We're asking for an easy look at records that are not attached to any profile.)