Show me sources when I am merging

LegacyUser

Stephanie Spencer Booth said: The new merging page does not show the details of a source attached to either record being merged. It just shows a bunch of meaningless stuff, for example:

URL
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1...
Citation
"Iowa Marriages, 1809-1992", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1... : 13 January 2020), Nicholas J. Defries, 1888.
Notes
This extracted record was used to create this person in Family Tree.
Last changed: April 12, 2015

None of this helps me to determine if this record supports the merge I am about to do. I used to be able to click on the source and see what the source said. That feature is gone and I miss it.

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: There is (or was) a problem with the merge routine and sources. First, you are correct in that the source details are not expanded. You have to click on the link to open the source -- but, when I did this several days ago, the full source listing overwrote my merge document.

I do not know if that has been fixed or not.

There have been several requests to expand the source during the merge, so yours is not the first.

The second is that the record for which you provided the URL is "Retired" and the current record (attached to both husband (Nicholas J. Defries) and wife is at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619....

Since you completed the merge yesterday (the 21st), I cannot check to see if the problem I noted still exists or not.

To be honest, I think I would go through each and every source to make sure they are still valid. However, for the source that displayed "Retired Record
This record was a duplicate and has been retired. Please use the current copy.", the source in the source list does not indicate that that particular source has been retired. The source your referenced was from the IGI

There is a definite problem with that source and the fact that it is still showing as valid (not retired) in the source list for Nicholas. Yet when I click on the source from the source list, it takes me to the index page for the source with the Retired Record banner.

FamilySearch needs to address this as this is something I haven't seen before and even more so, it has nothing to do with being able to see the source details during the merge.

FamilySearch please investigate this issue of showing a valid source that the index page says is retired. The source is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...

The record is Nicholas J Defries - LJJW-M5W The first screen is from the source page. The second is the expanded entry showing it is from the IGI, and the third is the index page for that entry, showing that it is retired!

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: There is (or was) a problem with the merge routine and sources. First, you are correct in that the source details are not expanded. You have to click on the link to open the source -- but, when I did this several days ago, the full source listing overwrote my merge document.

I do not know if that has been fixed or not.

There have been several requests to expand the source during the merge, so yours is not the first.

The second is that the record for which you provided the URL is "Retired" and the current record (attached to both husband (Nicholas J. Defries) and wife is at https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619....

Since you completed the merge yesterday (the 21st), I cannot check to see if the problem I noted still exists or not.

To be honest, I think I would go through each and every source to make sure they are still valid. However, for the source that displayed "Retired Record
This record was a duplicate and has been retired. Please use the current copy.", the source in the source list does not indicate that that particular source has been retired. The source your referenced was from the IGI

There is a definite problem with that source and the fact that it is still showing as valid (not retired) in the source list for Nicholas. Yet when I click on the source from the source list, it takes me to the index page for the source with the Retired Record banner.

FamilySearch needs to address this as this is something I haven't seen before and even more so, it has nothing to do with being able to see the source details during the merge.

FamilySearch please investigate this issue of showing a valid source that the index page says is retired. The source is https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/619...

The record is Nicholas J Defries - LJJW-M5W The first screen is from the source page. The second is the expanded entry showing it is from the IGI, and the third is the index page for that entry, showing that it is retired!