Warning when there are several marriages between two individuals

Jerome Blier

When I Attach Historical Records to Family Tree, it's easy to add a marriage between to individuals. If there are many historical records related to the same marriage, it can easily create many marriages for the same individuals.

Some marriage data are more accurate than others. The system display the first marriage in the list between two individuals. A warning could help cleaning up the marriage list between thos individuals.

Thanks :)

Jerome

Jack Hern

I too have seen this. As a matter of OCD house cleaning, after confirming an Actual Marriage Date from the attached source records - I will note a full and complete date and location; and delete the additional entries.

Leaving all sources attached for reference, there is plenty of proof for dates for Licenses, Notices, Marriages, Return of Marriages, etc. The correct date is in place in the proper place in FS. This allows the program to continue to search for relevant potential sources without cluttering up the Details page.

(I will do the same for partial and duplicate Residence entries on the Events section on the Details page. )

It is important for all redundant and duplicate Sources to be attached to the correct person; it is not necessary for duplicate entries of the same or similar information on the Details page. (I once saw 62 entries of the same indexed source document for a person a few years ago...)