Issue 6.13
If you find a source attached to one of your Family Tree ancestors that is not in your Source Box and you want to attach it to a relationship or to someone else, click on the title of the source you want, click on ‘view,’ then add it to your Source Box as you would any other source you find on familysearch.org. The entire source, including notes will be copied and you will still be able to tell to whom and to which relationships it has already been attached.
The link to the Family Tree Training materials, including the webinars on Editing Relationships, Sourcing and Merging is familysearch.org/tree-training. You have to be signed in to access them.
Be sure to attach sources to your husband-wife AND parent-child relationships to prevent others from coming in behind you and deleting correct relationship data.
Record Seek is a useful tool for creating sources you find on websites other than familysearch.org and putting them in your Source Box. Go to recordseek.com and drag the green ‘RecordIt’ button to your browser bookmark bar. When you have a landing page for a source in findagrave.com or even ancestry or whatever, click on the ‘Record It’ button you added to your browser bookmark bar, and it will copy the URL, citation and a title into the proper source fields.
A hijacked record is a record with comingled data pertaining to two or more distinct people. If the problem was created in new.familysearch or before, you can’t fix it easily in Family Tree. There are two resolutions, the best way: Send a Feedback email to FamilySearch Support (See Document 106612 in the Help Center). But first, it would be good to attach source records for the individual you want to remain in your family tree and also identify the URL’s for sources of other fused individuals, so you can prove they are distinct individuals. That might be a lot of work, but it is the only way to properly prove the record is hijacked, except in blatant cases. In your email, provide the ID number of your person, your contact name, your relationship, your date of birth and your helper access number.
For more information contact Shanna Jones (435)628-4900 shannasjones@msn.com