Re: [Gramps-users] Marriage and relationship representation

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> How hard will it be to represent my crazy relationship (of the personal
> variety):
> 1) I was married - No children - Divorced
> 2) I was married a second time - Two children of this marriage - Divorced
> 3) Eight-year relationsip - Two children of this relationship - Relations=
hip
> ended
>
> Seems pretty straight forward, but the woman from my first marriage is al=
so
> the same woman from the eight-year relationship.

That last sentence is the fun part to represent.  But, I just tried
it, and Gramps has no problem showing 2 families with the first
person.  (It warns you that you are creating another family with the
same people, but in this case it is what you want.)

In short, here is what you do:

1) create the 2 adults you need (forget the children at this point)
2) select yourself
3) go to the "relationships" view
4) click on the "spouse" button at the top, or click "edit -> spouse"
5) add wife #1; insert the marriage/divorce events either now or later
6) click OK
7) click on the "spouse" button again, or click "edit -> spouse"
8) add wife #2
9) click OK
10) click on the "spouse" button a third time; add the same person as
you did at step #5
11a) in Gramps 2.x, the family will default to "married"; change this
to "unmarried" or "common-law", or ...etc...
11b) in Gramps 3.x, I think the default is "unknown", so change this to ...

That should be it.  You'll note the warning at step 10, but this is
what you want.

St=E9phane