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attach record to person's identification number

MrsLCJ
MrsLCJ ✭
June 10, 2021 edited December 30, 2022 in Family Tree

In the familysearch app, I often go to a sources and see that the record is not attached to everyone mentioned. I see a person and know who it should be connected to, but it is not a person familysearch can see, as the name is different from the one in that person's record on familysearch. I want it to be easy to record of a person mentioned in the source, directly to a familysearch person Identification number, if I know exactly who it is the record refers to. Currently, I have to create a new person and later, find out the number of the new person I created and merge it with the correct person. If there were an option to, instead of creating a new person, put in the correct person's record Identification number, it would make things so much easier!

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  • dontiknowyou
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    December 30, 2022 Answer ✓

    Please don't "get after" people for not knowing about every feature.

    No one is "getting after" you. My parenthetical comment that this thread is more for Q and A, not Ideas, was for the benefit of the Community moderators. They have moved this thread out of Suggest an Idea to the more appropriate category.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    June 11, 2021 edited June 11, 2021

    (This thread is more for Q and A, not Ideas.)

    The option you ask for is on the web interface here. The phone app works in a similar way.

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  • MrsLCJ
    MrsLCJ ✭
    December 30, 2022

    Wow! That's ever-so-helpful! Thanks! I put this in the "suggest an idea" because I didn't know this feature already existed. I thought it was an idea for something that didn't exist. Please don't "get after" people for not knowing about every feature.

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