How to view "Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246242815"
"Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246242815" appears in a person's source relating to death date, but no information is provided except for the urn statement above. How do I see the actual data for urn:familysearch:source:3246242815 ?
It would be helpful if Family Search provide a way to simply display NFS Legacy data, specifically urn referenced.
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I just happened to run across an example of one of these empty sources:
That is the entire information in the source. These may have event places or dates but they do not actually have any source information and there is no way to trace back to see if they ever did.
Apparently when sources were imported from New Family Search in 2012, there was no way to filter out and include just actual sources so all these items that are labeled as sources but are not came along. As stated in my prior post, just delete all of these you run across. We are still doing a lot of clean up work of that initial 2012 import that created Family Tree.
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@Tpanc13RichL Unfortunately, those NFS legacy sources have no additional data attached to them. If you'd like to learn more about these sources and where they might have come from, the Help Center has an article: Migration of nFS legacy sources from new FamilySearch
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Feel free to detach all sources that look like this in Family Tree. As stated by N, they have no information. If you detach them, no one else will get confused by their presence.
The other Legacy source you will often run across are ones that repeat data found on the detail page but have no source information at all for that data. Detach these also to help clean up people's records in Family Tree..
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@Douglas McPhaden, nobody said he does. Why do you expect or want Gordon or anyone to "speak authoritatively" for FS? He's a fellow user of the platform -- a particularly experienced and sane one, and a frequent contributor on this forum and all of its predecessors.
For whatever it's worth to you, I agree with Gordon that a "source" citation that doesn't lead anywhere can and should be deleted. I am also merely a fellow user of the platform.
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