Oy, the convolutions involved in getting a marriage entered and sourced!
The marriage is indexed, which helps in getting it attached to both sets of parents without extra hoops to jump through, but it's indexed as a marriage registration, and Source Linker is taking that as absolute and incontravertable Gospel: it creates a custom event (just for the bride, for some unknown reason), and even if I take it up on that offer, it does not attach the source to the relationship.
In order to add the marriage and its source, I have to first save the index entry or image in my Source Box (three clicks if I already have the index detail page or image open, plus one to close that tab), then go back to the profile and click the marriage edit pencil (minimum two clicks, depending on the current browser tab situation), then add the source from my Source Box (five clicks, or more, if I need to open the source to verify that it's the right one), then marriage pencil again (1), open the source I just added (1), copy the source date (click-and-drag plus ctrl-c), try and memorize the place (if it's even there -- a lot of index entries have been disimproved to show just the country [gee, duh, really?]), then add the event (6 clicks plus keyboard work). I generally skip source tagging on marriages, since it's an extra 5 clicks, and it doesn't really do anything useful.
Minimum 20 clicks, a copy-and-paste, one placename needing to be remembered, plus typing -- all for adding a single event.
One.
Single.
Event.
FamilySearch, PLEASE prioritize fixing the whole relationship setup in Family Tree. (While you're at it, please revert the disimprovements to source tagging. It should be made easier, with FEWER clicks, not progressively harder, with more and more clicks required after each tweak of the process.)
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Excellent detail! Thank you @Julia Szent-Györgyi ! I hope it's read and acted upon, with more thought about the general process of devolution we see in too many processes. FamilySearch is such a wonderful program, yet in many ways it's becoming more and more difficult to use, and to re-learn after becoming familiar with previous changes. Sometimes it seems that the "whole" has been entirely lost due to individuals and small teams working on small individual parts in ways that seem to make sense only to those that create the changes. Your detail does a great job of pointing out the practical difficulty being created too often with all the changes "for the better."
—Chris
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