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 ==== FamilySearch Person Centric System introduces a Modern Linking Model.  ====
-FamilySearch is a person centric system. Each person listed in the indexed historical records collections has their own unique persistant archial link (URL) or person source and hense thier own unique web page. Linking a person source, or page, from the historical records to a conclusion person in the Family Tree is the manner by which a researcher tells the system that the two people are the same. This system allows FamilySearch to account for each individual recorded in the records more accurately than does the ambiguous linking of images, which may contain many unspecified indivuals.
+FamilySearch is a person centric system. Each person listed in the indexed historical records collections has their own unique persistent archival link (URL) or person source and hence thier own unique web page. Linking a person source, or page, from the historical records to a conclusion person in the Family Tree is the manner by which a researcher tells the system that the two people are the same. This system allows FamilySearch to account for each individual recorded in the records more accurately than does the ambiguous linking of images, which may contain many unspecified indivuals.
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-Each historical records person source is stored in the GedcomX data model which gives it deep internal awareness of it's person's data and relationships. It knows what vital data is present on the record and what that data means. It knows what relationships to other persons it's person has on the record and what those relationships mean. It knows what record (ex a census household record) it's person is found on, what image(s) that record is found on, and what collection the image is part of. In other words, if you link the person source in historical records to the Family Tree person you are simultaneously linking the record, the image, if available, and the collection since these are all associated with each other.
+Each historical records person source is stored in the GedcomX data model which gives it deep internal awareness of its person's data and relationships. It knows what vital data is present on the record and what that data means. It knows what relationships to other persons its person has on the record and what those relationships mean. It knows what record (ex a census household record) its person is found on, what image(s) that record is found on, and what collection the image is part of. In other words, if you link the person source in historical records to the Family Tree person you are simultaneously linking the record, the image, if available, and the collection since these are all associated with each other.
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-Historically computing systems and data models could not support such internal knowledge and many genealogists are used to creating one source for a record or image and then attaching it to multiple individuals. Since one page might contain from five to one hundred people, many might have the same source. If that old process is still followed in today's advanced system the resaercher would be telling the system that the single person source in historical records is the same person as all the persons in Family Tree to which it is attached. That would represent the addition of incorrect information to the Family Tree and should not be done. Please attach each person in the records to the proper corresponding person in the Family Tree.<br>
+Historically, computing systems and data models could not support such internal knowledge and many genealogists are used to creating one source for a record or image and then attaching it to multiple individuals. Since one page might contain from five to one hundred people, many might have the same source. If that old process is still followed in today's advanced system the researcher would be telling the system that the single person source in historical records is the same person as all the persons in Family Tree to which it is attached. That would represent the addition of incorrect information to the Family Tree and should not be done. Please attach each person in the records to the proper corresponding person in the Family Tree.<br>
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 <br>Then you can create a source out of the URL to their person page. You can title the source with a Date to take action. Then whenever you are in family search you can review the wait list folder and determine if any of these ancestor's dates have come to pass. <br>
-==== Master Sources and Good Sourcing Ettiquette  ====
+==== Master Sources and Good Sourcing Etiquette  ====
 See <u>FamilySearch Person Centric System introduces a Modern Linking Model.</u> above if all names on a source record are indexed. If all names are not indexed on the source you should keep a "Master" source unattached. Store it in your source box and copy it editing it for the individual person and then attach it to only one person or if the source is for a couple to the couple relationship. Be careful editing or using others sources. You should not copy a source and change the note to make it apply to your ancestor. Notes on the source record apply to all individuals who have that source attached. The individual who created the source may not realize that you have changed the source on their ancestor to talk about your ancestor.
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 === Using Stories and Photos/Documents  ===
-==== Editing Pdf Files&nbsp; ====
+==== Editing Pdf Files&nbsp;  ====
 Cutepfd.com has a free online editor that allows you to rotate pages in a pdf file individually.&nbsp; So if some pages were scanned correctly, but a few turned to the side, you can fix the problem here.&nbsp; It opens online in Chrome.&nbsp; You can edit the pdf online and save it back to your computer there.&nbsp; At this moment it does not open in firefox.
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 On the other hand multipage documents may work better as a pdf.&nbsp; You can still tag names as you would faces.
-==== Labeling a Document as a Source ====
+==== Labeling a Document as a Source  ====
 Create a Source for you document. Type in a Title. &nbsp;In the space labeled Web Page click the button Add a Memory and add the file as a document. &nbsp;Then copy the link from the document into the Citation field.
 ==== '''Create Traceable Family Lines'''  ====