Has something changed using the Wikitree Sourcer?

Question

When I use Family Search and a marriage source to build a "narrative with citation" it keeps giving me a narrativeb that I have to edit. 

Just started yesterday and I have rebooted my computer etc. but it continues to do it again today.

Link to family search record is:

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q28C-26MQ

Ida's husband Oliver O Howard married Oliver O Howard (age 21) on 5 Jun 1891 in Campbell, Kentucky, United States.<ref>

'''Marriage of husband Oliver O Howard''':

"Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954", database with images<br/>

citing Digital film/folder number: 007719410; FHL microfilm: 000459915; Image number: 341<br/>

{{FamilySearch Record|Q28C-26MQ}} (accessed 25 February 2024)<br/>

{{FamilySearch Image|3Q9M-C9BX-SDLL}}<br/>

Ida M Sphar in record for another person's marriage to Oliver O Howard (21) on 5 Jun 1891 in Campbell, Kentucky, United States.

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Answer 1

Hi Norma,

I tried doing Build Narrative with Citation" on the profile that you mentioned. It doesn't popup any extra dialog for me.

Nothing has changed in Sourcer in the last week. It is possible that something has changed on the FamilySearch page. But if so it is not affecting me. That could mean that they are rolling out a change that has not reached everyone yet. Is anyone else seeing this problem?

The other possibility is that it is something local to your computer. Have you recently installed any other browser extensions that could be changing what is on the page?

Another possibility is that you are not actually clicking on the Sourcer icon which looks like [1] in the task bar. If you clicked on the WikiTree BEE icon it might do what you are seeing.  

Comments

Hi Rob

I just tried it again after another reboot and made sure it was Wikitree Sourcer I used and it's still the same thing.

The only thing that has changed is Google has updated their browser other than that everything is the same.

Weird and annoying but hopefully it straightens itself out.

Thanks Norma

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That is weird. There should be no way that a dialog like that would come up unless you click on the "Edit Citation..." menu item.

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After I pasted it into the Wikitree profile I went back and checked in the Edit Citation and it was the same problem.  So I tried it again.  Same results in both instances.

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I think I must be missing something. What problem are we talking about?

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Oh, I see. I completely misunderstood your initial post. Your issue is that it says:

Ida's husband Oliver O Howard married Oliver O Howard

rather than:

Ida married Oliver O Howard

I actually do have that problem on my list to fix. It is caused by the weird way the record is presented on FamilySearch. It is the record for the wife but has the name of the husband.

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The Wikitree Sourcer "Build narrative with citation"  It's coming up with additional words in the narrative.  Now sometimes it's only putting the first letter of the first name on FindAGrave as well.

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Wonderful!  I'm glad I'm not loosing my mind.  LOL  

The FindAGrave is hit and miss as well

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The previous report I had of this was for a Pennsylvania marriage. So maybe FamilySearch has recently messed up all their US marriage transcriptions. I will have to see how easy it is for Sourcer to work around this.

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This is what I get from a Find A Grave:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91226577/l-rich

L was mentioned on a memorial in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States with a death date of 22 May 1893.<ref>

'''Memorial''':

"Find a Grave", database with images<br/>

{{FindAGrave|91226577}} (accessed 25 February 2024)<br/>

Memorial page for Louise R Richards (31 Jul 1842-22 May 1893), citing West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (plot: Merion 10); Maintained by Crypt Tonight (contributor 48494116).

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I highlited to show the error

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Interesting, I will put that on my list to look at. It looks like I may be getting the first name for the narrative from the URL. Usually they match but in this case they do not.

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Thanks Rob!

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It's happening to me as well.

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I have published a new version of Sourcer (2.2.1) that is now available on all browsers. This fixes both issues - FamilySearch and Find-A-Grave.

Let me know if you see something like this with the new version.