Question on Adoption and name change

[Leslie Jensen]

I have a person who's married twice with children in both marriages. But
when I try to add this person as parent his first spouse follows him.
How do I handle this?

One of the above persons children is later adopted and gets a different
lastname, I would like to make it very clear that john xxxx later is
John yyyy, the same person.

I would appreciate suggestions, thank you.

Leslie


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[Duncan Lithgow]

Leslie Jensen wrote:

>
> I have a person who's married twice with children in both marriages.
> But when I try to add this person as parent his first spouse follows
> him. How do I handle this?
>
> One of the above persons children is later adopted and gets a
> different lastname, I would like to make it very clear that john xxxx
> later is John yyyy, the same person.
>
> I would appreciate suggestions, thank you.

Have a look at Edit > Compare and Merge... that might be what you need.

Duncan


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[Duncan Lithgow]

Leslie Jensen wrote:

>
> I have a person who's married twice with children in both marriages.
> But when I try to add this person as parent his first spouse follows
> him. How do I handle this?
>
> One of the above persons children is later adopted and gets a
> different lastname, I would like to make it very clear that john xxxx
> later is John yyyy, the same person.

Question 2 I answered off list.

I think a solution to question 1 is to double click on the spouse he has
divorced and add the event 'divorce' to their 'Marriage/relationships
editor'. Then go back and add the new partner/spouse. Depending on which
spouse is selected you should be able to add and remove children until
it works.

hope that helps

Duncan


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[Duncan Lithgow]

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what you're reading.

> Are the database constructed so that when I add dates for these
> marriages the corresponding information, children, etc. will be connected?

Don't know, try it and see! You might want to work on a copy of the
database to be safe.

> From what I've seen and tried, a persons registerd dead does not
> terminate this persons marriage and register the spouse as widow from
> the same date.
> Am I wishing to much?

Maybe, I don't think what you've asked for above is something you can
expect from a stateless program - ie. it doesn't work from a specific date.

Hope you're having fun getting used to gramps - I've found it quite odd
in places and hard to get used to. Takes some time.

Duncan




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[Lynn67]

Is your mother's name Diane?