Is there a simple way to detect/correct missing union dates in multiple union families?
Example:
Albert has been married twice, the first time to Bernadette, the second time to Camilla (notice the A-B-C sequence in this test data).The date of the first wedding is not known and has not been filled in.
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The same is true for the auto-arrange function which inverts first and second marriage.
Also the timeline has problems with this. Here the first marriage was simply omitted.
The only work-around I found is to use a approximate date like “~1955” in the “Unions/UnionDate” field.
(In the picture above we are looking at the “General/Display Text” values but the same values were put in the “Unions/Union Date” fields).
Now the sequenceis OK.
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The timeline is now also correct. Note that the end of the firstmarriage is automatically derived from the death date of the first wife, Bernadette.
QUESTION 1: Would it make sense to suggest an approximate first marriage start date derived from either the birth date of a first child (if any) or from the fact that the firstwife died before the second marriage took place. I do realise there is no fool proof solution for this. What if there are no children in the first marriage? What if there is a second union before the first spouse dies? Maybe the best solution would be to raise an error condition and let the problem spotter signal this?
QUESTION 2: In the meanwhile, how can I detect the other marriages where this is the case? I’m only looking for multiple marriages where one of them has no union date filled in. Single unions without a union date cause no problems.
[For one or the other reason I'm loosing some spaces in the text above. No idea why this happens.]