Truncated marriage date in 'Changes to People You Follow'

Leroy Roberts

The marriage date that is shown in Changes to People You Follow is being abbreviated from the actual date in the person page.

Example:

Abbreviated Marriage Date.png

Actual Marriage Date.png

Please change the marriage date to the full date in the people you follow section.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

The system did not truncate the date. There were multiples of the same marriage event attached to the couple - one with a short-form date and one with a long-form date. The one that was deleted had the short-form date.

Alan E. Brown

The dates shown in Family Tree in general are what the last editor actually entered. The editor can choose to enter dates in a variety of formats, which may or may not correspond to the standardized (full date).

The examples you showed in your screen shots are for Samuel Henry Miller and Virginia C. Wright.

• First screen shot: Yesterday someone entered a marriage event for them with a date of "25 Dec 1873"; you then deleted that marriage event, and so the change log entry for that deletion accurately shows the date (and place) for that event as it was existed at the time it was deleted.
• Second screen shot: Now that that recently-added marriage event for them has been deleted, the marriage event someone entered in 2014 is the only marriage event. That marriage event has a date of "25 December 1873". That is what appears in the Family Members section of Samuel's person page in the Spouses and Children area. What appears there is the current date for that marriage event; it may or may not be a full date, but in this case happens to be a full date.