Marriage date vs marriage of intention date
When attaching sources, it would be helpful to be able to put the dates in order. Sources had been attached and the marriage date showed. Sources were later attached and it put in their marriage box the date of the intention of marriage. The intention of marriage is interesting and should not be deleted but there seems to be no way to keep the correct date of marriage in tact.
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FYI
I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...
Just in passing ...
This is NOT new ...
We have been "Asking"/"Requesting"/"Pleading"/"Begging" for Years, to be able to have ALL "Couple" Events listed; BUT, be able to specify WHICH particular "Event", should appear, in the "Family Members" Section, for a "Couple", rather than just the EARLIEST 'Dated' "Event".
eg.
First ...
▬ Marriage Banns
▬ Intention to Marry
▬ Marriage Licence
Second ...
▬ Marriage
Third ...
▬ Divorce
And, so on ...
▬ Re-Marriage
▬ (and, 'Yes', even) Re-Divorce
There are some "Couples", that have been, Married; and, Divorced, to one another, on MULTIPLE occasions ...
The REAL problem/issue is, WHO, is the one, that CAN (and, should) "Decide", which SHOULD appear ...
Each User/Patron has their OWN "Perception" ...
And, there is LIMITED 'real estate' (ie. room); ESPECIALLY, if there is MORE, than just Two (x2) "Events" ...
Hence ...
The "Dilemma"; and, apparent inaction ...
As, simple things, in fact, can be Much MORE, "Complex"; and, "Complicated", than most of us think ...
It is NOT a "Simple" matter ...
Just my thoughts.
I know, that this certainly does not help/assist; but, I hope, that this may provide you with, some additional, insight; and, perspective.
Brett
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The marriage intention can be removed from the couple's table by editing the marriage field between them. The intention record remains in the Source list. You can move it to a Custom event, so that it remains in the Timeline.
Although this topic was made as a Suggestion, I think it belongs under FamilySearch Help:Family Tree.
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This belongs under suggestions because it's yet another iteration of "please fix the relationships section".
The current setup is simplistic to a fault: it only displays the earliest relationship event that has been entered. This means that if you want it to display the correct marriage date, you cannot enter anything that you know about the banns or license or other precursors to the wedding.
As dontiknowyou said, the workaround is to enter pre-marriage events and facts under Other, not in the relationship section. The drawback to this is that you need to do it twice, because the Other section is separate for each profile.
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Looking at the Couple Relationship/Marriage dialogue:
Yes - I think this means FamilySearch only intends one date of marriage to be entered.
You can certainly add other 'Marriage events' (banns, intention, reception, etc) - but there remains only one 'Marriage event'. So I think it is FamilySearch's structural/definitional intention that the earliest date would be the only one that appears (i.e. FamilySearch is defining one marriage event - either they were married or it should not be entered as 'marriage'). I wonder that Banns, intention, etc are not listed there - means they should be entered elsewhere... if one entered them without a date in the date field but put that in Reason or a Note
that would also workaround this issue.
I guess if one only records the actual marriage date event that is all that the profile 'needs'. Other documented Couple Relationship events (banns, intention, etc.) could also be entered under the Sources area as another workaround:
... Since this would be under Couple Relationship - it would only need to be entered once.
...or as mentioned above in Other Information> Custom Event.
I still wish there were an easier way to enter all sources under Sources and then tag 'Marriage' which would add them as Sources under Couple Relationship ... so I still attach marriage sources under Sources too.
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I sometimes do what @genthusiast suggests: use the Relationship Sources list. That is, if I remember to put the sources in a Source Box so I can put them in that list more easily.
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