Thursday, May 21, 2015

Mark Opportunities as Fixed

On Monday we added the ability to hide opportunities. Today we are releasing the ability to mark an opportunity as fixed. The new "Fixed" button will be in the top right corner next to the "Hide" button.


After correcting data in FamilySearch, you can click the fixed button to remove the opportunity from the list. When the button is clicked, the opportunity will be replaced with a summary message that includes an undo button.


Fixed opportunities will be removed from the current list only, not from future lists. This means there is no review list as there is with hidden opportunities. If an opportunity appears again after being fixed it means the data in FamilySearch has not been corrected in the way that Find-A-Record expects. Contact us if you do not understand how to correctly resolve an opportunity.

Please remember that not all opportunities need to be resolved. Find-A-Record is designed to help you focus on what matters to you. You don't have to standardize dates and places; you don't have to find records; you don't have to fix names. You can do what is important to you. The new "Fixed" and "Hide" buttons help you focus on what matters most.

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  1. dianeJuly 18, 2015 at 5:14 AM

    If an opportunity appears again after being fixed it means the data in FamilySearch has not been corrected in the way that Find-A-Record expects. Contact us if you do not understand how to correctly resolve an opportunity.
    Can you explain how to fix this please. Thanks

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    1. JustinJuly 18, 2015 at 1:20 PM

      I would love to help. Could you tell me which opportunity keeps returning and the ID of the person it's for?

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    2. dianeJuly 19, 2015 at 5:49 PM

      I have the problem for many in my family tree. Here is one of them, Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950, URL http://search.Ancestry.com.au/collections/1780/records/5340777, the persons ID isK2NJ-9BX. I love your website and are telling all my friends about it so I would love to be able to help them fix any minor hiccups. Thanks

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    3. JustinJuly 20, 2015 at 9:44 AM

      We need to do a better job at explaining how marriage records work. Find-A-Record looks for marriage records that are attached to the couple relationship, not the actual persons. This partly due to how source tags work. We use tags to detect birth and death records. But FamilySearch doesn't support a marriage tag. So the only way we can reliably detect a marriage record is if there's a source attached to the couple relationship.

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    4. dianeJuly 20, 2015 at 8:06 PM

      Thanks for that, I presume I need to do the same thing if it is not picking up a birth, death etc; so I just need to tag it on their birth or death information. Maybe you could explain that in your information if its not already there (maybe I missed it).
      Great website, it is a very useful tool for fixing up my tree and great for finding those ordinances still to be done.

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