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Entering source for marriage

Post by donone » 01 Jan 2011 15:03

Help from a previous post has solved entering sources and citations with one exception.
With a marriage I have two sources from BMD one for each of the partners marrying the other.
I can find no wiki help.
I actually added the source as before. Then I added the link to the marriage 'fact' not 'event' for one of the partners via the Add Citation button (the only way I could find). This showed one citation in the Source list.
When I did the same for the opposite partner, the citation also appeared but in the source list it showed zero citations.
[edit: this was because it does not update automatically as I expected and so is not a problem]
Under ALL there is no entry at all for the sources because there is no event for Marriage. Should I enter a new event and call it marriage? If not, what have I failed to grasp?

I appreciate that marriage is a shared event but it seems inconsistent regarding sources because it does not show in either individual ALL.
A little guidance would be appreciated please.
[EDIT 2] I guess it now comes down to...
is it correct to use Add Citation to add the two sources to a Marriage Fact and that the sources should not therefore be attached to individuals?

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Entering source for marriage

Post by nsw » 01 Jan 2011 19:39

You seem to have answered most of your own questions. Firstly the correct GEDCOM terms are Events and Attributes which Family Historian calls Facts for simplicity - this is why you will tend to see these terms being used interchangably. A marriage fact is attached to a family record rather than an individual. So to your question 'is it correct to use Add Citation to add the two sources to a Marriage Fact and that the sources should not therefore be attached to individuals?' the answer is yes.

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Entering source for marriage

Post by donone » 01 Jan 2011 21:31

I just wanted to be certain in what seems to be an uncertain field. Thank you Nick

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