Marital Status
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Kathy Love said: Please add "marital status" to Vitals or the information pull-down menu to make it easy to track.
This is often given on a census record and can help narrow time frames when searching for marriages, deaths, etc.
Currently too easy to overlook.
This is often given on a census record and can help narrow time frames when searching for marriages, deaths, etc.
Currently too easy to overlook.
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Juli said: Marital status at what point in time? Nobody is born married.0
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Paul said: Perhaps Kathy is wanting to have a clear "Never married" (or otherwise) conclusion made available. Please, elaborate on your idea, Kathy. If it is along the lines that I am thinking, many users would agree about having a prominent place to show an individual was never married throughout their life. However, on occasions, this conclusion has been later proved to be wrong. Speculation - or facts - about the "marital status" of a person can be added as an item in the Collaboration section - as a Discussion (especially if the subject seems debatable) or as a Note.0
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Kathy Love said: I want to record marital status through time. When a "residence" record is made, a census attached, or a link to draft cards, city directories, lots of things.
If the "add information" pull down had a marital status choice, you could easily add that info and it would be displayed.
An example: on the 1940 census my relative is a young man in his father's household. And single. I attach the record for his WWII draft registration, 1944. The image shows me he declares he's married. Yet his "wife of record" and children are post-war, 1950.
If under draft registration it could say: marital status:married, anyone would know to look for another marriage record in the 1940-1944 time frame. And then a subsequent divorce or death record, before the 1950 marriage.0
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