Can reserve Sealing to Spouse - says female was married before age 8 which is NOT correct.
How do I get this fixed so that I can reserve this ordinance? This is a computer error.
G3TT-XLK Ebba Ragnhild Elizabeth Nordgren - birth 4 Nov 1887 she was 24
GS4K-5ZD Hjalmar Eugen Nilsson he was 35
14 May 1877
Marriage 8 Jun 1912
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Hello @Cherie Nielsen
The marriage date is entered as "8 June 1912" but is standardized to "4 November 1887".
To standardize the marriage date:
*go to the marriage date and edit it by clicking on the Edit symbol on the right.
*in the date field, place your cursor at the end of the "8 June 1912" and add a space.
*the program will give you the standardized date below. Choose that date.
kind regards
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Thank you so much! Reserved now!
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I would take what you are seeing as a warning of a possible major error in merging. Since the marriage date was at one point standardized to 4 Nov 1887, that means that someone "corrected" the date to 8 Jun 1912 without updating the standard. I don't have the opportunity to check right now, but I would advise you to carefully check the Change Log for these two people before doing any ordinances. There is a high likelihood that you need to separate back out a couple that was married in 1887 that were incorrectly merged with your family.
There is a possibility that the individual ordinances that show on the record for your people do not belong to them at all but rather to the couple married in 1887.
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Had to the chance to take a look and everything actually looks fine. The change logs for both individuals and for the relationship are short and straightforward with no merges. The marriage date was entered once and never edited until today when someone fixed it for you. It would have been better for him to leave this for you to do so you could get practice in checking and correcting standards.
Basic principle: All dates and places in Family Tree are stored twice. As the displayed value you can read on the detail page and as the linked standardized value that is visible in only a few places, among them in the editing box. Whenever something is not making sense with a date or place, it is always good to first check the standard because the two values do not need to be the same.
It's rather difficult to have the display date and the standard date be different but not impossible. I can't tell you how the marriage date got standardized to be Ebba's birth date but one possibility is that when first entered, the user accidentally typed in her birth date, saw the error, corrected it before even saving but without letting the standard update before saving.
In any event things are fine now.
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