[LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread David Baker
How does one add extra marriages to a husband & wife? Around this side of the world, multiple marriages are common - I've had 4: Australian High Commission in Malaysia - the one I see as legal. Customary Chinese wedding - the one the wife's parent's see as the only one that matters. Church weddi

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread Jenny M Benson
David Baker wrote How does one add extra marriages to a husband & wife? Around this side of the world, multiple marriages are common - I've had 4: I have relatives who had 2 marriages under similar circumstances to yourself and I have entered the second one as an Alt.Marriage Event in Marriag

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
IMHO, I would create different Alternate marriage types, using an appropriate name, like Malaysian Government Ceremony, or Chinese Church Ceremony, etc. They are basically different ceremonies of the same couple (my guess). As a different example, when we got married, we had three bridal showers, i

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread ronald ferguson
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Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread Leon Chapman
Dave: I would just add events under the marriage called "Marriage" or "Alt. Marriage" and record them as part of the marriage. Names are an issue it seems. A couple of suggestions: 1. You might use the AKA field to reverse the order of the 1st & last. 2. You might use the nickname trick to incl

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread Heather Stovold
/www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _ > > > > > > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:49:26 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [L

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread ronald ferguson
/ _ Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 09:36:27 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages I'm not Richard. but a bridal shower is a party for a future bride (ie, she is engaged) held a little bit before the wedding

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
shaw/ > For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _ > > > > > > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:49:26 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [Lega

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
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RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread ronald ferguson
://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:57:28 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marri

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread Jay S. Van Zeeland
/ _ > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:57:28 -0700 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > It is a custom where the girlfriends of a bride(and/or >

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
___ > > > > > > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:57:28 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple > marriages > > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > > > > It is a custom where th

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-06 Thread RICHARD SCHULTHIES
England See: > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ > _ > > > > > > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 13:57:28 -0700 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple > marriages > > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-07 Thread Tracy Skegg
Dave, there were a couple of threads last year that you may find in the Archives that could have suggestions on inputting Chinese names, the subject lines and dates were: - Changing the order of Chinese names sept 2007 - Chinese surnames June 2007 Cheers Tracy Legacy User Group guidelines:

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-07 Thread Donna Mc R
Jay wrote: We still have stag and hen parties in addition, but we refer to them as Bachelor and Bachelorette parties. These are generally much more wild than the Bridal Showers. And don't forget the old-time "chivaree," which my grandmother (born in 1880) told me about when I was a child. S

RE: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-07 Thread Janis Gilmore
ay. Janis -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Donna Mc R Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 10:11 AM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages Jay wrote: >We still have stag and hen parties in

Re: [LegacyUG] Same people, multiple marriages

2008-07-07 Thread Kathy Shiell-Stokes
Donna: That's not just an Oklahoma customIt happens in Ontario Canada too... My dad kept the old dinner bell from the home farm for just such a purposeMind you the thing was so heavy it took three people to lift it I remember Mom telling me that when she and Dad got married the Chiva