If after searching I cannot find a person in FamilySearch and choose to add them from within RM, does it add their sources, or only the person?
Nevermind, I went ahead and tried it. It did not add any sources. How come?
It’s a limitation that the FamilySearch API has. We can’t send notes or sources with a person. Same when you download them. They have to be added one at a time.
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okay no problem. I thought I be overlooking a step, thanks!
Even beyond the limitations in the API that FamilySearch provides, the data model used by FamilySearch is a good bit different than the data model used by RM and much other desktop software. For example, FamilySearch does not even have fact notes. I’m not sure I understand all the other differences in the data model well enough to comment very well. But I have ended up doing most of my FamilySearch work while being logged on to FamilySearch rather than doing it from within Family Search Central while using RM.
I really can’t make my data in FamilySearch look like my data in RM. I may be missing something obvious, but I would love to see a good tutorial entitled something like “How to make data in FamilySearch look like your data in RootsMagic”.
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Well mine in ancestry doesn’t look anything like it does in RM, and I’m happy with it in RM so I’m not going to change it. Doesn’t really matter, I was just surprised. I haven’t played with syncing much yet, as it seems problematic and isn’t really important to me.