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Re: How to enter when someone remarries a previous spouse?

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Unfortunately, FTM doesn't handle this re-marriage event well (actually, at all).

You can assign a second marriage event with a date to attach sources to, but one of the two events will have to be preferred. This means that only one marriage date appears in the first paragraph of a Genealogy (register) Report.

To get the Genealogy Report to reflect the situation, one has to enter text into the description field of the first marriage:

Marriage:
Date: 01/01/1850
Place: Timbuktu
Description: Divorced in 1858, remarried in 1865.

Then, enter the second marriage fact and attach sources for that. Unfortunately, this second marriage fact will be "buried" in the list of other facts, and only if you choose to have alternative facts show.

Once you have done the above, the first paragraph of your regsiter report will read:

Joe Blow married Mary Smith on 01/01/1850 (Divorced 1858, remarried 1865), Jane Jones on 01/01/1860 and Doris Day on 01/01/1870.

I wouldn't want to have two entries for the same person in my database.


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