* Annulled Marriages

[David_Lewis]

I've been doing a lot of work on the line of succession to the British throne and the descendants of the Electress Sophia. I've come across a number of marriages that have been Annuled rather than ending in divorce. There doesn't seem to be an option in the status box to record this. Is there a reason for this.

[tatewise]

I would suggest using the standard Annulment Event and Divorce Event to record those states rather than the Status for a number of reasons.

Firstly, _STAT is a non-standard FH extension to the Gedcom and so will not export well to other products.

Secondly, the Events can record Date and Place and cite Sources, etc.

I don't really understand why Divorced is in the Status options since the Divorce Event is far superior.
The other Status options cannot be recorded in standard Events.

[David_Lewis]

Thanks Mike. Should have looked in the events options.

[Jane]

I suspect Divorced is a status as it allows the triggering of the / over the marriage link line on diagrams.

[tatewise]

Ah, yes, all the Status values can affect the marriage link line as set in Diagram > Options > Lines > Marriage Status Line Options.