Source Tag Changed - which one?

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Paul said: I have to admit, source tagging is about the last feature in Family Tree which hitherto has been of of any concern to me. So when I saw there was a change to one of the IDs I am following - headed "Source Tag Changed" - I thought I'd check out what had happened.

Not for the first time, I'm sure my question is going to make me look rather silly, but I just can't see how I can (easily) identify the item that has been changed here. I managed to tag a source or two myself (as can be seen in the screenshot), following (well, interpreting) the instructions at https://www.familysearch.org/help/hel.... However, I still can't see how I identify the changes made earlier today by the other user (GilbertCarolyn1). There is no link or indication of what source title is involved.

Perhaps someone can help me out here, as well as explaining the advantages I am obviously not seeing / benefiting from, by my lack of conscious use of this feature in my day to day work in Family Tree.

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: When I make my own source from an image that has no index, I index it myself and put it in the notes and attach to all relevant parties and then I tag the source to the relevant vitals for each person involved. Then I can easily see the source when I edit that particular vital. In the future they will allow you to tag sources to different things in the other information place too.
Btw indexed sources attached via source linker tags the source by itself (but you can untag particular vitals on the source linker too).
All sources should be tagged to the name as that is how you know that source is attached to that person. And then when you edit the name you can see all the names the person went by right there. Although u need to click on sources that were not indexed to see the name.

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Jeff Wiseman said: Just a thought on this. If all sources are to be tagged to the name, you will end up with the same exact list as in that person's source list (only it won't be sorted the same)

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Jordi Kloosterboer said: true, but with indexed sources, you can just see the name without looking at all the other info.

Like this person might not even went by the last name of Hulleman in life, but I would have to find his marriage and birth records first. I can easily see how the name progresses through time. Or if there is a potentially incorrectly attached record with a different name, I can see that.

btw, it does sort by date, but when I took this picture, I hadn't put the date in the date section for the burial source. I just put it in and it is at the top of the list now, as it should.

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Jeff Wiseman said: Sorry, I was getting a bit pedantic :-)

Yes, having that indexed information down the side of the screen there is wonderful for doing quick checks on your conclusions.

But you had said, All sources should be tagged to the name as that is how you know that source is attached to that person. The way I know that a source is attached to the person is by looking that the source list for that person's record.

Also I never use the chronological sorting because doing so scrambles the different source categories on source lists making it far more difficult to find a given source in a source list that is 10 pages long.

So if I am dealing with a source list that is 50 or more sources, I have them grouped categorically which is far better for finding a given source. But in the tagged list, all source categories will be scrambled--i.e., it is sorted differently than the source list I'm using.

(every time I go to find something in a source list, I am almost always looking for a particular type of source. I do NOT have a date yet. So in very large lists that have been sorted chronologically, it is very clumsy and slow trying to find sources)

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Paul said: I just found the answer to the main question myself - by going back to the Following section I can see what is not visible from Show All Changes on Dorothy's ID:



Perhaps I should utilise the tagging feature, but till now I've got along fine without really paying any attention to it.

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Jeff Wiseman said: I think that the show all changes on the person record and the Changes to people I am following are done by two different departments. Over the last couple of years, they have never matched.

The show all changes from the person's record is obviously broken w.r.t. tag changes. There is no useful information provided other than "Something" related to a tag changed on some unknown sources and some unknown vital

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Paul said: Exactly my point.

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Bryce Roper said: Thanks for catching this discrepancy between the change log and the following page. I have reported it and it will get fixed