What is the best way to record 'remarriages' within a family?

yodacat8

For example, Jane married Sam. They divorced a year later and married other people. Then a few years later, they both divorced their spouses. Jane and Sam remarried, then divorced again. I've entered all the appropriate data in the marriage key next to their names. When it closes, it only shows the first marriage date. So it looks like Jane was married two times, instead of the actual three times. Thank you.

Brett .

@yodacat8

FYI

Welcome to the "Community.FamilySearch" Forum.

I am just another 'lowly' User/Patron ...

Just in passing ...

Sadly ...

On the "Person/Details" page/screen, of an individual/person ...

Short Answer: We ONLY ever 'see', the FIRST "Event" ... we DO NOT 'see', ANY, of the SUBSEQUENT "Events".

Unfortunately ...

That is the CURRENT "Design", of the "Couple" Relationship, (ie. In, the "Family Members" Section) ...

ONLY the EARLIEST 'Dated' "Event" WILL appear ...

Note: Even, if a Couple "Divorce", that "Event" DOES NOT appear.

So ...

That Said ...

Of course, one will NOT 'see', MULTIPLE, "Marriages"; and/or, "Divorces", for the SAME Couple, on the "Person/Details" page/screen.

ALL that one CAN do is ... make sure, that the "Events" are ALL listed ... in the "Pop-Up" (ie. "Modal") 'Window', of the "Couple Relationship", in "Chronological" ('Date') order.

Nothing more, nothing less ...

Sorry ...

Just my thoughts.

Who knows, things may "Change" in the FUTURE ...

I know, that this certainly may not help/assist; but, I hope, that this may provide you with, some additional, insight; and, perspective.

Brett

Julia Szent-Györgyi

In Family Tree's current setup, if you want more than a couple's earliest relationship event to show without requiring archaeology gear, you'll need to enter them as custom events under Other Information. Yes, this means double work, because you have to create the custom events on two profiles.

Harvest8

yodacat8,

I had one example of a marriage, divorce than remarriage to same spouse. as a personal preference for unique helpful to knows and "outside the box" events, like this one, I entered the info. not only into the standardized marriage fields as you have, but also typed a narrative of the same into the Notes and Life Sketch free form areas. My situation may be different as others in some of the paywall sites were mixing children to the wrong parents due to the "yours, mine and ours" confusion that can be created with multi marriages with kids.