Re: [Gramps-users] Problem with unmarried listed as spouce

[Duncan L. <dli...@gm...>]

On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 17:58 -0400, Tom Weichmann wrote:
> In my family there is a woman who had a child but never married the father. 
> Several years later she married another man.
> 
> In the "Relationships" view it lists the child's father as a spouse, but in 
> fine print it says "Relationship type Unmarried".  This is a little 
> confusing, but I can understand why it is done this way.  I can't come up 
> with a different label other then spouse.
> 
> The real problem is in the Decendant report.  It just puts a SP infront of 
> both men's names and does not say married or unmarried.  This can be 
> confusing dependant on the exact make up of each family.  Is this something 
> that can be fixed?  Maybe simply grab the "relationship type" tag from the 
> family.
I can see that according to many definitions 'Spouse' means they are
married but 'Partner' is much less specific.

Should we switch 'spouse' with 'partner'? I can make a bug report if
people agree.

Duncan