For questions about customs, traditions, and laws associated with marriage. Marriage is the social, legal or religious union of two individuals.
Questions tagged [marriage-practices]
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Properly recording the marriage/wedding event
Most genealogy software gives you one field for the date of marriage, and one field for the place of marriage.
However, there are some complex unions that do not take place on just one day and one place. In genealogical data, I've seen up to 4…
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Simple way to visualize First Cousin marriage
I came across some blood relations / intra family marriages like first cousin marriages in some of my family history books that I have. They are all documented as text in a family history book, not as a pedigree. I tried MyHeritage.com to draw such…
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How do I indicate that two people have children but never married?
Many children's parents in my family tree were never married. How do you put down the mom and dad and show they were never married? This always gets me in trouble because people say, "We were never married."
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