Hi Ludie. It doesn't look anyone has answered your questions yet. What I can tell you is that there is a facility within Legacy to record a divorce as a status so that it becomes specific to the marriage events module and not a direct part of the regular events module. So, for example, if you have the husband and wife of that first marriage visible in the FAMILY view and you record the marriage (or have already recorded the marriage), you can go into the marriage events by clicking on the marriage events icon. That is is the second icon right in line with the date and place of marriage, on the right hand side of the screen. When you click on that icon, the marriage information where will come up where you can click on a drop-down box and select divorce as a STATUS and the date of the divorce, if known.
I suspect that entering DIVORCE as a status will handle things a bit differently as entering DIVORCE as a separate event on a per person basis. Someone else will probably chime in here and tell us the differences and what is desirable, but I thought I'd get the ball rolling by both contributing and asking a question myself on what is the best way to record divorces. Talk to you later, --Jerry On 11/14/2010 10:54 AM, Ludie wrote: > > Question: Is there a reason/setting why choosing Edit for husband or > wife it doesn't show anything in the events? But if you choose Edit > >Marriage then a divorce appears but not the marriage? > > I guess another question I should ask is what is the correct way for > entering marriage/divorce for a couple. I've noticed if I do an add > Event and enter the information another box pops up and I have to > repeat the process. I'm not sure I'm remembering exactly the process > but there is a double entry process. > > I wanted to see what happened when I did a report on either of the > individuals. For the wife the first husband didn't show at all even > though that was the view on the screen, instead her 2nd husband was > listed as the primary spouse. I then brought up a report on the first > husband (was correct) then back to the wife and the report showed up > correctly then. So I'm assuming that was just a glitch. Wouldn't like > it if I was actually printing reports though. > > Ludie Tollar > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
