Judy...I do understand what you are saying and I know that Ancestry only has an index for SSDI. I was trying to explain that the 'view online' link is there whether you merge the source from the AMT or FTM, but the URL for the webpage is only there if you do the merge from FTM. I apologize that my explanation was not clear. Barb in Minnesota On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Judy in Ocala <treewright@gmail.com> wrote: > You won't get a link to a record from the SSDI, because there is no image > to link to. Social Security records are merely an index, you don't see any > actual document. If you want a physical document for an SSDI record, you'll > have to take a screen print of it. > > Judy in Ocala > > > On May 26, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Barb Januscheitis via <ftm-tech@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > > BJ...I wondered why sometimes I do not have the "View Online" link on my > sources. I assumed they were old sources. I generally link from FTM, but > occasionally from the AMT. > > I did a couple of test cases to check this out. I merged a source from > the SS Death Index and a census record from AMT to my tree. When I > checked FTM, both sources did have the "View Online" link, BUT did *not* > have the web address. Other records from the SS Death Index and Census > records that I merged from FTM have both the "View Online" link AND the web > address. > > Another thing I observed about the census record that I downloaded via > ATM. I selected both the husband and wife when I merged the records. On > the source in FTM, the citation does not state ' Record for NAME' in the > citation text. Also the "View Online" link takes you to the person that > the record is attached to instead of to the person from whom the record was > merged from. In my case, the 1930 census, I did the merge from the wife's > record in AMT. In FTM, when I click on the "View Online" link for the > husband, it takes me to the 1930 census for the husband. > > If I had merged that record from the wife via FTM and click on the 'View > Online' link for the husband, it would take me to the wife's record for the > 1930 census in Ancestry. > > I thought you might be interested in my results. > > Barb in Minnesota > > > > Plus by merging, I get > > the "View Online" link allowing me to return to the match at any time. > > I never merge anything from an AMT. > > > > BJ > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FTM-TECH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >