"No couple relationship"
Can you make it possible to use this function with a bit more wider range?
Example: There are kids who died at very young age and if you mark it with "no couple relationship"
then it would not show all those boxes with the text "Add spouse" when you are looking at "View tree". There is no need for that anyway.
A lot of space could be saved and with a better overview.
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. . . and what if later you find out they didnt die young and were actually married
In my humble opinion - you should always have the option to add spouse - even if you believe they didnt have one.
I just dont see the harm in the add spouse option being displayed even for people who didnt have a spouse . . . . why add extra logic, to make things more complicated - when its not really adding any value.
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. . . and what if later you find out they didnt die young and were actually married
Just remove the Other Information> Fact and logically Add Spouse and Child options could return. As always, the value in such an option would be accuracy of profiles in Tree.
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but if you mark it as "No couple relationship" - you then need an option to remove "no couple relationship"
again adding more logic that we dont need . . .
the data is as accurate as we as users make it - a "no couple relationship" doesnt make it more accurate . . .
are there other genealogy program that have this option?
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It's only accurate if it applies. The logic to remove a Fact is already there.
What isn't there is the logic dependency to remove options for Spouse and Children when they never married and did not have any children (the sum of this whole Idea).
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Indeed you can add a factoid and remove it - yes
BUT the logic to VALIDATE that setting is in accordance with whether or not a spouse is actually hooked to the person - or whether the person was even of age to be married - - is not there.
if we have evidence of a spouse we add the spouse
if we dont - we dont.
I dont see the point of anything beyond that . . . but thats just my two cents and not everyone thinks alike.
in many cases we cant really say with 100% certainty a given person wasnt married - simply that we havent found evidence for it.
I respect others different view points.
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If there are 10 kids and only 8 made it to the "wedding day", you would have 8 extra boxes in the Family View with "Add spouses" unnecessary.
There is already evidence with birth / death day. You can still edit the fact on the Person Detail page and just removing the fact of "no couple", in case you where wrong about it. There is the
- "Delete the no couple relationship"
This would ONLY apply to the Family Tree Viewer anyway.
And this is NOT a final Fact, whether it's accurate or not. We see people enter wrong thing, even terribly wrongly indexed.
Mixing up dates like "4" is indexed as "9" 1854 becomes 1859, 1 is indexed as 7, 1851 to 1857 etc.
How about dates? 4.6.1850 ? Sometimes it's 4 Jul, sometimes its Apr 6 ? :)
But we check it and correcting it. Personally, I always double check everything
Sometimes we encounter where there are more than one child with the same name to, since the first one didn't made it. There is a family I saw with 5 kids and non of them made it to 1 year.
This could also "WARNING" us to double check, before we add a spouse. We already have warnings when we enter wrong dates or trying to add a child after a parents dead.
GEDCOM specification has "NCHI" - (number of children). And I'm using it by making it visible. Of course it's editable. I have been programing genealogy programs, report generators.
Why scatter unnecessary Family Viewer with "Add spouse", if there might be non?
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Yes. Not to remove the option on the Person Details page, where you are actually editing. Only on the Family Viewer.
Hidden Trick (Classified Information):
- People might wonder why "Add Spouse" isn't there, and they would force them self to double check it. Then the data would be more accurate :)))
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