You may have a Marriage Certificate or a Marriage Register Entry from a Church, Chapel, Synagogue or other religious venue, and want to understand how you record information from that Source. This article describes how you do that.<\/p>\n
A companion article discusses some of the issues associated with Recording a Civil Partnership<\/a>.<\/p>\n Certificate details for the couple should be captured in a Family\u00a0Marriage\u00a0Event with a Source Citation.<\/p>\n Usually a Method 1 or \u2018source splitters\u2019 Source record will be created with a meaningful Title, a transcript in the Text From Source, and an image linked via the Media tab. Alternatively, a Method 2 or \u2018source lumpers\u2019 Source Citation will have one Source record for all Marriage Records, and each Citation will provide specific details including Media.<\/p>\n Automatic Source Citations could be enabled, and associated Individuals such as parents and witnesses, created or updated with Residence and Occupation facts.<\/p>\n A note on ages: Sometimes the Age is given as Full that is not allowed in a\u00a0GEDCOM\u00a0Age field, so enter > 21 yrs, which is what it means (or > whatever the relevant age of consent is at the time of the marriage). Sometimes Minor or Underage is given, and < 21 yrs can be entered.<\/p>\n In this context, Witnesses are not just the Marriage Witnesses named on the Certificate, but may also be the minister, bridesmaids, best man, etc.<\/p>\n From the perspective of the Witness Individual, those roles are not currently included in the Witnesses employ a non-standard GEDCOM structure not recognised by most other products, although this is partly mitigated by the Export Gedcom File<\/a> plugin that creates synthetic facts for the Witness roles.<\/p>\n To list any roles in a marriage<\/span>, right-click the Marriage<\/span> Event and choose Witnesses, then use the Go To button and Locate Event for Witness to show their Property Box.<\/p>\n Once you understand the data recording process including how to create and cite Source Records, all the above steps can be performed using Ancestral Sources in a convenient and reliable way.<\/p>\n Ancestral Sources has options for recording the \u0192h<\/span><\/span> V6 Fact Witnesses but see Witness Facts<\/a> for further advice.<\/p>\n Other standard GEDCOM Family events related to marriage<\/span> are Engagement, Divorce Filed, Divorce, Annulment, and Marriage Banns\/Contract\/Licence\/Settlement.<\/p>\n Annulment effectively means the couple were Never Married and applying that Status makes the marriage<\/span> lines dotted in Diagrams.<\/p>\nCapturing Certificate Details<\/h2>\n
Recording<\/span> Ceremony Witnesses<\/h2>\n
Using Ancestral Sources<\/h2>\n
Other Family Events<\/h2>\n
Related Plugins<\/h2>\n