under Marriage Event types, could you add "Never Married"
Under Marriage Event types, could you add "Never Married" in addition to "Lived Together". They are not the same thing.
Thanks, Jerry Erickson 😄
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The problem with "Never Married" is - how do you know. What most of us (myself included) mean by "Never married" is "I can't find a record of their marriage". Which isn't the same thing, either. (Family) History is full of couples who went off miles away to get married specifically so as not to upset anyone where they lived. And unless we're really lucky, we may not find that distant marriage. I've even found a case where a couple swore blind to the world that they were not married - when they were. But if I hadn't found that marriage some distance away, I might have believed the deliberately misleading statement in the will that the couple were "just good friends".
I'm happy to explicitly say "I can't find a record of their marriage" but so long as I think logically, I know that this doesn't mean "Never married".
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In birth/baptism records, a note that the parents are not married is sometimes included. This is informative, and it would be nice to record it in a way that it obvious to see, without needing to click down into the marriage event details.
Perhaps "Not Married" would be a better option for the marriage type.
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I have an aunt who recently died age 98 and was never married. I know this as a fact as I knew her personally very well. I put in the "fact" section that she was never married and my reason that I know that. You can also put it in the "notes" so that it becomes noticeable
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In birth/baptism records, a note that the parents are not married is sometimes included. This is informative, and it would be nice to record it in a way that it obvious to see, without needing to click down into the marriage event details.
Definitely agree that it would be nice to include this but please remember that there is only one of these that is easily visible per "marriage". If the couple are unmarried at the time of their first child (say) but married by the time of their 2nd or 3rd child - how do you record that?
You can't have two marriage types for the same couple of "not married" and then "married". The type (in this case) is surely "married" with an event of "marriage" that comes after the birth / baptism of their first child (in this case).
Basically, yes I'd like to make all this stuff clearly visible, but at the moment we're trying to get a quart into a pint pot and make one item (the Event Type) serve two purposes (Type of Marriage and Events Happening To That Marriage). Since FS FT only shows the first such item at the moment, it messes things up if there's more than one Event. Or is it more than one Type??? 😕 So yes, I totally agree with what people want to show but the way the system is set up right now, it doesn't work with the simple changes being suggested.
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