Marriage ends by death of spouse

[Arman 0]

A marriage end by a divorce or the death of the spouse. My question is how TMG handles the death. I expect that in the events of a partner, a tag must be added when the marriage partner dies. Otherwise, a marriage seems to continue. What is the standard way of working?

 

Any help is appreciated.

[RGC 0]

A marriage end by a divorce or the death of the spouse. My question is how TMG handles the death. I expect that in the events of a partner, a tag must be added when the marriage partner dies. Otherwise, a marriage seems to continue. What is the standard way of working?

 

Any help is appreciated.

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I have added a "surviving spouse" role to the death event:

His wife [PF] died <[D]> or Her husband [PF] died <[D]> sensitive to the sex.

 

For an example of how it works out, see

http://www.rgcle.com/SS/p2.htm#i22

 

Dick

[Judy 0]

A marriage end by a divorce or the death of the spouse. My question is how TMG handles the death. I expect that in the events of a partner, a tag must be added when the marriage partner dies. Otherwise, a marriage seems to continue. What is the standard way of working?

 

Any help is appreciated.

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I add the surviving spouse as a witness to the death. That way the death shows up on the surviving spouses person view.

[GenerationGoneBy 0]

My roles are Widow and widower, but work similiar to Dicks. I also recently created a new role for when the death of a spouse isn't know, but the other spouse has remarried.

 

[:CR:][:TAB:] [R:Spouse Remarried] apparently has died, since his wife has remarried. <[R:Bride]> married <[R:Groom]> <[D]> <[L]>.

 

I picked the funny role name so that I would be able to see in his PV why I thought he died at that time.

Edited February 22, 2006 by GenerationGoneBy

[Arman 0]

Thank you all for your answers. I notice that the solutions you use are all are by manually adding something.

I would like that the TMG program takes care of this, for example by automatically adding some end-of-marriage tag when a spouse dies. In report outputs I would like the marriage to appear like ´marriage 1920 - 1936´, just as the living period.

 

What do you think? Is this a feasible solution?

[GenerationGoneBy 0]

That would, of course, be up to Bob, however, how would you handle marriages that didn't end in the death of a spouse, like divorces?

 

By doing it on a person by person basis, I can control who gets the special role. My grandfather was married 4 times. He (according to family legend) divorced the first two wives, then the third died in childbirth, and the fourth outlived him.

[Arman 0]

That would, of course, be up to Bob, however, how would you handle marriages that didn't end in the death of a spouse, like divorces?

 

This can be stay as it is. I suggest only to add something that is currently missing.

[GenerationGoneBy 0]

The question is HOW? How would TMG know to create the tag. How would it know which spouse to use if the person was married mulitple times?