I’m brand new here so I’ll start with what I hope is a straight-forward question. I have just run across a couple in my tree who married, had children, divorced and then remarried each other again. Can I have two marriage facts for the same couple?
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Most definitely ~ Just right-click either and then select Add Spouse, followed by choosing their same former Spouse and adding a new Date that fits their 2nd marital occasion and particulars.
Thank you very much.
In addition, to “yes, they can have two marriage facts”, I’ll add that they will still just be one couple. That may seem obvious, but sometimes two people can become a “couple” more than once. And when that happens, it usually is a problem that needs to be cleaned up so they can go back to being a couple only once, even if they were married more than once.
The same two people becoming a couple more than once usually only happens due to imports of some kind, such as importing a GEDCOM or importing from Ancestry. As long as you type in all the data yourself, RM prevents the same two people becoming a couple more than once.
Since you are new, let me give you a heads up that RM typically calls two people “spouses” if they are in a relationship such as biological parents of children together, even if they are not married. And really, many or most other genealogy software uses the same terminology. This can be rather jarring if you are new to genealogy software. I wish there were a better word in genealogy than “spouse”, but that seems to be the most common terminology. Don’t worry too much about it. That terminology may appear on RM screens, but it typically doesn’t appear on RM’s reports. Instead, what appears on RM’s reports typically is marriage facts - or the absence of marriage facts.
I have one couple in my RM database who were married and divorced, married and divorced a second time, and married a third time. They still were just one couple in this “spouse” sense in which genealogy software links people together as people.
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Very good to know.
This new couple I have found comes from my bushing out my tree after discovering that my great grandfather of record was not actually my biological great grandfather. This came about through DNA evidence, first showing me that I had an unexpected 12% Ashkenazi ethnicity and then by a DNA match of 362 cM between my aunt and a man in Sweden. This led me back to my biological great grandfather, who had five brothers, and I’m now tracing their descendants. The great grandmother in question had children by four men.
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