Global Fix for Lost Marriage Tags

[Philip Hunt 0]

I imported my dataset from Reunion via a GEDCOM and later found that many of the spouses were not linked with a marriage tag. I usually discover this when I am looking at a child record that shows both mother and father, but when I go to either mother or father, their spouse is not connect. Of course, when I find these, I fix them. Is there a way to find all the missing marriage tags? Say, produce a report that shows records that have the same children, but appear not to be married?

 

Philip

[Jim Byram 0]

Philip,

 

For future reference, there is an option using the Advanced Wizard for GEDCOM import to 'Assume marriage of parents' (STEP 5 - GEDCOM Options 1) which would have created the Marriage tags you are 'missing'.

 

You can find such people with a filtered List of People report.

Filter

# of children > 0 AND

# of Marriage Group tags = 0 END

 

This could miss situations where both of the spouses had more than one marriage but should catch most cases.

 

Jim

[Philip Hunt 0]

Philip,

 

For future reference, there is an option using the Advanced Wizard for GEDCOM import to 'Assume marriage of parents' (STEP 5 - GEDCOM Options 1) which would have created the Marriage tags you are 'missing'.

 

You can find such people with a filtered List of People report.

Filter

# of children > 0 AND

# of Marriage Group tags = 0 END

 

This could miss situations where both of the spouses had more than one marriage but should catch most cases.

 

Jim

 

Ahah. Thanks

[John Cardinal 0]

Philip,

 

TMG Utility has a feature that may help with this situation. Note that it can either add marriage events, or simply produce a list of parents who are unmarried.

 

See Add Marriages