# Help Understanding Family Search Citation

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**Category:** Genealogy\
**Created:** [February 6, 2024, 12:38am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/help-understanding-family-search-citation/4814 "2024-02-06T00:38:15Z")\
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Ok. We might be straying from the question that is pertinent to Gramps… regardless of whether the FamilySearch citation might be mangled, how do you load that much preformatted-Citation data into the Citation/Source/Repository structure of Gramps?

This probably goes back to the _really_ long discussion at:

> [@Sources and Citations: some thoughts](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/sources-and-citations-some-thoughts/2899/18):
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> Right, that’s very close to what can work for many links, except for two of the items in your example: For persons, FamilySearch ID’s are already stored in attributes, so you don’t need a citation for those. The attribute is filled automatically when you import a GEDCOM file from Ancestral Quest, Legacy, RootsMagic, and other known FamilySearch clients, including the getmyancestors program, People may use Wikipedia in different languages, and forget to add the proper qualifiers, or the unders…

5.2 has Citation plugins? Will we be able to flow in a pre-formatted footer or endnote?

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