I need help putting in divorce information

PajakSharon

My Great-Grandparents were married & divorced, then married & divorced again. The family had precious little information about my great-grandfather and so I've been chasing his history. I found a newspaper notification of the 2nd divorce and submitted a request to the county records and received a pdf of the divorce decree.

I really have 2 questions: first is, how do I indicate the divorce on the tree (and, when I find the information, the other divorce and other marriage)?

And second, does a pdf work as a source? I've converted it to 3 png files (one per page), in an attempt to clean it up enough to read better. I don't know how to upload all of this. Help!

ellenmerrillfluckiger1

First question: Go to (husband or wife) person page and scroll down to the family members section. Click on the pencil icon to the right of the marriage date listed between the husband/wife. Click on Relationship Event; click on add event, click on the dropdown arrow to the right of "marriage" and choose "divorce" and add date and place if known. You can do this again for the other marriage and divorce when you find the information. Something to consider, the last marriage date entered will be the one that shows in the family members section between the husband and wife.

Second question: You can upload a PDF to documents in Memories on a person page or in the Gallery. You can upload your converted png file to photos in Memories on a person page or in your Gallery. https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-upload-photos-or-documents-to-memories. Hope this helps.

ellenmerrillfluckiger1

PajakSharon,

Has your question been answered?

McConnellCurtisWilliam56

This article describes how to add divorce information for a couple.

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-add-or-change-marriage-information-in-family-tree

McConnellCurtisWilliam56

The second part of your question has to do with uploading Memories and using the Memories as a source.

This article describes how to upload either the pdf or png files of the divorce to FamilySearch.

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-upload-photos-or-documents-to-memories

Once you have uploaded the document(s) into Memories, you can attach the Memory as a source as described in this article:

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-add-an-outside-source-to-family-tree

TinaVenturi

Specifically, FamilySearch accepts .jpg, .png, .tif, .bmp, and .pdf files as sources. See the following article for more details.

https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/how-do-i-add-an-outside-source-to-family-tree