Tell you what goes wrong in PAF 5.1.7.0, RootsMagic 4.0.9.7, His blog post Multiple Events and Unions in GEDCOM does not only Supported by GEDCOM export & import tests.īack in 2013, Louis Kessler considered the same topic,Īnd performed some tests to see what happened in actual practice. That may sound like a theoretical consideration, but it is a very practical one, It is possible to have multiple MARR and DIV subrecords on a single FAM record,īut it may not be expected by a GEDCOM importer, so some applications may loose data when importing such a FAM record. Multiple marriages should be kept separate from each other, to avoid losing information. Simply because it does not expect multiple marriages on a single relationship. Reports may present just one of two marriages recorded as a single relationship, Multiple relationships, to avoid losing information on reports. Multiple marriages between the same persons should be recorded as May actually be a marriage of one partner with a third individual that happens to have the same name as the second individual.Īlways keeping separate marriages as separate relationships does not prevent you from making that mistake,īut does make it easier to fix your database when you discover it. What you may think of as another marriages between the same two individuals, To correctly and clearly reflect that they were single in between the two marriages. The two marriages should still be recorded as two marriages, If you were to add an relationship that actually happened in between the two marriages before or after the two marriages,Īny consistency checker worthy of the name will quite right complain.Įven if neither partner has another relationship in between the two marriages, You can longer put another relationship in between, because there is no in between any more. If you were to add the second marriage to the same relationship, You can easily record other relationship for either partner in between those marriages. When multiple marriages between the same partners are recorded as multiple relationships, Multiple marriages should be recorded as multiple relationships to allow other relationships in between. When you entered only enter the first marriage and second divorce on the same relationship,īut will notice information missing when they are recorded as separate relationships. What message should it produce when it finds a bunch of these events out of order?Ī consistency checker cannot detect that something is missing Marriage and divorce events should be recorded and presented in chronological order.Ī consistency check will try to confirm that all events are in logical order.Ī consistency check may get confused by a second marriage following a first divorce,īut even if it understands that situation correctly, That there sometimes are multiple records to be found for the same marriage is confusing enough already. Multiple marriages should be kept separate from each other, to avoid confusion. Having separate relationships for separate marriages avoids that misinterpretation. The general meaning of recording multiple events where only one is expected is that these are alternative dates or places. Multiple marriages should be kept separate from each other, to avoid misinterpretation (by humans). Should be documented as its own separate relationship, because that is the simple and consistent thing to do. The answer is that you should create a new relationship, because it is a new relationship.Įvery new marriage, including between people who have been married to each other before, Or shoul you create a new relationship (for the same couple) for each new marriage? consistency Should you add multiple marriage and divorce events to a single relationship,
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The real question is how to record multiple marriages between the same persons. The GEDCOM import and export function of a genealogy application must preserve your choices, not try to correct them. So that when it imports that GEDCOM file, you get back what you put in.
Your genealogy application should create a GEDCOM file that correctly reflects how you recorded these relationships, You should use your genealogy application to document their relationships. The answer to that question is quite straightforward you should not be creating GEDCOM files manually. Or should you create a new FAM record for each new marriage? Should you create a single FAM record that contains all the MARR and DIV subrecords, What to do if a couple marries, divorces and then marries again, perhaps even divorces again, maybe even repeats this a few times?
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