Hi Karen,
Are you really getting a ghost spouse when just adding an individual? I haven't noticed this.
Or only when you add a child to that individual?
Children have two parents whether you know the second one or not and so the program adds a "Marriage" and you need to change the status to "Unmarried".
Take a look at the spouse icon on the Family View. For someone without a spouse, it will be grey. For someone with a "ghost" spouse, it will be coloured and have a number for the number of spouses.
I only use the Never Married on the Individual Information Screen when I'm certain that someone didn't marry or have children - no known sexual relationship.
For research purposes I'd like to be able to tick this for people who died young but for reporting I only want it for those who lived to marriageable age. It's obvious in our culture that a child of 4 never married.
I don't think there's a bug here - I haven't noticed it and I'm sure we would have heard more about it by now as the current build has been around for over 2 months.
It may be time you use the File > File Maintenance > Check/Repair as sometimes indexes get a bit scrambled.
Hope that helps. Cheers, Cathy
At 06:23 3/01/2005, you wrote:
Still experimenting I have found that there isn't any consistency with people who are left with defaulted married in the person 1 field of the marriage screen. In reports some of them are coming thru as "John married" but others have nothing what so ever written about their marriage status. In one case I have a birth year in others I have birth and death with ages at death between 50-60, but nothing shows for marriage status.
This definitely seems to need work.
Karen V. Sipe
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