Source Linker forgets who I was working on

Randy Wilson

I start in Family Tree and click the "FamilySearch" link to search records. It shows the Family Tree person at the top, and search results down below. So far, so good.

When I click on one of the links, and then "view record", it goes to that persona Ark, but without any indication of which Family Tree person I was working on. Thus, when I click "Review & Attach", Source Linker doesn't know which Family Tree person to compare with, and I have to jump through hoops to figure it out.

This is likely more a problem with the search results screen than with Source Linker itself, but it ends up affecting the Source Linker experience.

ScottSeegmiller

@Randy Wilson

I did a test to see if I could duplicate your experience:
I went to the person page for my Grandfather Hela Seegmiller and clicked FamilySearch under Search Records.
It brought up this:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?treeref=KW88-KR8&q.givenName=Hela&q.surname=Seegmiller&q.givenName.1=Heal&q.surname.1=Seegmiller&q.birthLikePlace=Saint+Joseph%2C+Lincoln%2C+Nevada%2C+United+States&q.birthLikeDate.from=1869&q.birthLikeDate.to=1873&q.deathLikePlace=St.+George%2C+Washington%2C+Utah%2C+United+States&q.deathLikeDate.from=1937&q.deathLikeDate.to=1941&q.marriageLikePlace=St.+George%2C+Washington%2C+Utah%2C+United+States&q.marriageLikeDate.from=1910&q.marriageLikeDate.to=1914

Then I click on the first record. It still has the name at the top left.
Then I click on Attach to FamilyTree.
The Indexed record is at the left.
My Grandfather is still showing on the right.

https://www.familysearch.org/search/linker?ark=/ark:/61903/1:1:65XP-MJ7Q&hinting=/tree/person/details/&id=KW88-KR8

So my experience is different from what you are saying.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@Randy Wilson I've had a similar experience. I'll try to capture the details next time it happens.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

And, it just happened to me again.

Searching from the profile of Catherine Cahoon GR5S-XZL for an immigration record. Once I opened the record and determined it was for GR5S-XZL, I selected "Attach to Tree," but Catherine is not in the first 5 people in the "Find a match" list. She is at #10, if I scroll all the way down.

I have not attached, in case anyone wants to view.