Adding Record Hints to the CET can only happen on one tree

James Tanner

First of all, I could not add an image of this issue without permission. I suppose that will change some time. Now, I am in the CET trying to add a Record Hint to Charles Godfrey DeFriez Jarvis GRVQ-J7S and I get a notice about his wife, Margaret Jarvis GRV7-VY8 that "This source is attached to someone else in the Family Tree: Margaret Jarvis G5GW-WCS." Hmm. The Margaret Jarvis who is attached to Charles Godfrey DeFriez in the FamilySearch.org Family Tree is Margaret Jarvis KWCK-ZQP. So, now I have an extra Margaret Jarvis. Is there a duplicate in the FamilySearch Family Tree? Initially, no duplicate shows up, so I try to merge with ID. I get an error message that says "Merge Cannot Be Completed, These two people cannot be merged because they are in different trees Learn More." I check the Learn More which doesn't tell me anything useful. By clicking on the ID of the duplicate person, I open the G5GW-WCS person and she is READ ONLY. I then click on this family tree and find that this person is already in a CET tree owned by Todd Powell 5 Gen Tree 4-15. I didn't realize I was related to Todd, but the issue is that it appears that I can't add a Record Hint to my tree if someone else already has the record attached. First come, first served, I guess. 😁 What would be a good way to show the screenshots?

Always Strange

@James Tanner - The Source Linker and Hinting features are still being developed for the CET experience and still only knows of the one tree concept. You can see our list of coming soon features at our Features: Currently Supported, Coming Soon & Not Yet Supported .... Announcement. We will post here when these features are ready for a good review from you and others. Thank you for the feedback

James Tanner

I will probably keep trying work with all the features I can because it appears that I was successful in importing Record Hints from Ancestry directly into the original Ancestry-based CET i had before I was asked to delete it and upload a new one. That was when the second Ancestry family tree didn't upload and switched to using a RootsMagic GEDCOM File. I don't really care, at this point, which GEDCOM file I use, anything except what I have on FamilySearch is fragmentary at this point. However, ultimately, I would like to use the CET as my primary tree.