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N_M_L ✭
August 5, 2021 in Suggest an Idea

A filter for connected / unconnected sources when searching records.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 7, 2021

    Upvoting.

    I have asked for this feature for years. It would really help with my more complete projects, where I have already attached all historical records previously released on FamilySearch. When new records are added, they get lost among the 100,000 records I already worked.

    Alternatively, sometimes I want to see just those historical records that already are attached to person pages. This would be helpful to me when detangling conflated person pages.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 7, 2021 edited August 7, 2021

    A related feature request: In the records search result filter menu, selection buttons and all in / all out buttons.

    Screen Shot 2021-08-07 at 1.05.49 PM.png

    (I love these added filters, by the way. Much appreciated!)

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 7, 2021 edited August 7, 2021

    Once I select a filter, I am stuck with it. I am not able to go back up the filter decision tree except by using the window back button in my web browser.

    Screen Shot 2021-08-07 at 1.09.56 PM.png


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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    August 8, 2021

    I think that's a new bug, @dontiknowyou. You used to be able to click the previous/higher-up filter(s) to go back to them, but now the only one that works is the top level ("Any Birthplace"). Or that's what it's doing for me (Firefox latest, Win10).

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  • WesleyAlcoforado
    WesleyAlcoforado ✭
    May 30, 2022 edited May 30, 2022

    I have the same issue while searching for new records, I have to scroll several pages of results that i already linked to profiles. It would be very helpful to be able to focus only on the ones that are not connected.

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  • Mark A Zych
    Mark A Zych ✭
    September 2, 2022

    When will this new feature be considered for development and testing. If needed, I can offer to test. Thanks.

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  • dontiknowyou
    dontiknowyou ✭✭✭✭✭
    September 2, 2022

    It is encouraging to see this feature request gaining votes, albeit slowly.

    Sometimes I want to see only those historical records attached to Family Tree profiles; sometimes I just want to see only those not attached. I would also like to see counts of records attached, not attached, and with attachment hints.

    This information provided right at the top of search results would save me so much time paging through the chaff looking for my wheat and would save FamilySearch CPU cycles and network bandwidth now wasted serving up all those pages of records I don't want.

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