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Sealing to spouse correct in Family group sheet

ThrapBrianJames
ThrapBrianJames ✭
November 8, 2021 in Temple

I have found that when there are multiple sealings to spouses for an individual, the family group sheet does not reflect the sealing to spouse for the selected couple but instead the most recently entered sealing to spouse (not sure what the exact aggregation is as it's not always the most recent date, but it seems to maybe be the most recently entered date, like from a merge). I would like to know how to configure this appropriately or get the bug fixed so that family group sheets don't have to be manually updated for information that's already in family search.

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  • sealing to spouse not showing
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  • Wayland K Adams
    Wayland K Adams mod
    November 8, 2021

    Hi, Welcome to family search community. Relative to your question about ordinance dates, family search displays the earliest date recorded for the ordinances. Even after an appropriate merge, it is still the earliest date that is displayed. If inappropriate merges have been done, they should be restored so the correct ordinance information is displayed. If you have evidence of earlier dates than displayed in Family Search, then you should contact Family Search through Community. Here is an articles which explains in more detail. Hope this addresses your question.

    https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/the-ordinance-date-in-family-tree-does-not-match-what-is-in-my-personal-records

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  • ThrapBrianJames
    ThrapBrianJames ✭
    November 19, 2021 edited November 19, 2021

    I understand that point, let me attach what I’m seeing

    You can see below, that Frances Ann Mears (KWNV-MBV) was married to 4 husbands, three of which she has been sealed to:

    Screen Shot 2021-11-19 at 8.16.14 AM.png

    These were all done on different dates and different temples.

    However, when I look at the Family Group sheet for Frances with any of these marriages, they all reflect the same sealing to spouse date.

    Sealing to spouse is filled in for Frances Ann Mears (which is here sealing date to Theodore Curtis) in her family with James Edward Walton, even though this sealing hasn't yet been completed (as evidenced by his lack of sealing to spouse)

    Screen Shot 2021-11-19 at 8.18.46 AM.png

    Same thing occurs with Samuel Rowley. Frances Ann Mears still has the sealing to spouse date consistent with her sealing to Theodore Curtis while Samuel Rowley's sealing to spouse matches up with another of his wives (Diana Bartlett).

    Screen Shot 2021-11-19 at 8.22.38 AM.png

    This is not an issue of the same ordinance being done for the same two people multiple times, as I'm sure that is a common occurrence and I've come across a number of those instances in the past. Instead, this is a coding bug, where when the information goes out to fill in the family group sheet, it is representing different spousal relationships than those in the family group sheet. Please let me know if you understand or if I still need to provide more evidence of this bug.


    Thanks, Brian Thrap

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