# Adding Person to FamilySearch - Sources?

**URL:** <https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593>\
**Category:** RootsMagic\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [September 4, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593 "2025-09-04T13:00:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![tinksquared](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tinksquared/32/7181_2.png) [@tinksquared](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/tinksquared)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593/1 "2025-09-04T13:00:38Z")

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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?

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**Author:** ![rzamor1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/rzamor1/32/8_2.png) [@rzamor1](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/rzamor1)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593/2 "2025-09-04T14:25:41Z")

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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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**Author:** ![tinksquared](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tinksquared/32/7181_2.png) [@tinksquared](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/tinksquared)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593/3 "2025-09-04T15:05:39Z")

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okay no problem. I thought I be overlooking a step, thanks!

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**Author:** ![thejerrybryan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/thejerrybryan/32/404_2.png) [@thejerrybryan](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/thejerrybryan)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593/4 "2025-09-04T18:08:15Z")

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> [@tinksquared](#):
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> It did not add any sources. How come?

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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**Author:** ![tinksquared](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.rootsmagic.com/tinksquared/32/7181_2.png) [@tinksquared](https://community.rootsmagic.com/u/tinksquared)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://community.rootsmagic.com/t/adding-person-to-familysearch-sources/14593/5 "2025-09-04T18:22:30Z")

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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.