Suggestion 420 Unmarried parents with other marriages
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[send private message], Janet Wild [send private message], and Data Doctors Project WikiTree [send private message]Description of Suggestion - 420: Unmarried parents with other marriages
These parents have a common child, but no marriage between them is recorded, although other marriages are listed.
Content of info column: Empty.
Possible Causes
Faulty old GEDCOM imports. It is also possible that there was no marriage between the parents.
- the parents were not in fact married to each other
- the parents were married to each other but the marriage is not entered
Action Steps
Try to find a marriage record and enter the marriage. If one can't be found, or if the parents were not married, note that in the Research Notes section.
- Mark the suggastion as a false suggestion
- Enter the marriage between parents.
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The presence of marriage is checked for all children with both parents set. Both parents must have Open or Public privacy. This suggestion is created for parents that have other marriages.
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Sheryl
One possible cause for a missing marriage connection is, as said, theexistence of old faulty GEDCOMS where marriage connections did not come through at import. This is probably more relevant for the cases where no marriage is listed for any of the partners.
Another possible cause for a missing marriage connection between partners that were actually married is that a duplicate has been created for one of the partners by mistake, as may happen before you get the hang of how to connect already existing profiles as family. Similarly there are situations where you may miss ticking the box for parents being married when you create a family. Or the profile creator has not been able to figure out where to find the link for creating a second marriage.
There are numerous cases when parents actually did not marry each other. These will cause a suggestion to appear - but since it is True that the parents did not marry, the suggestion must be marked as False.
The first "action step" should be to look carefully at all three profiles involved. If the profiles are well made and well sourced there should be a mention on at least one of them that this was a child born out of wedlock or a mention of the fact that the parents did not marry.
If the profiles are not well sourced, the first thing to look for might be the birth record for the child, which might tell you that this was a child born out of wedlock. Unless it is apparent from other records for the involved persons, you should still look for in indication of marriage: parents of a child born out of wedlock may have married later, in which case they should of course be connected by marriage in WikiTree.
However, what I have been seeing while going through "suggestion" 420 for Sweden is a majority of cases where the parents were not married - the automated list for this week shows 135 hidden "suggestions" and 39 "suggestions" not yet processed. I may have corrected one or two of each of the four possible causes for a missing marriage connection, not more.
Swedish records may be less inclined to gloss over children born out of wedlock. The State Church kept tabs on people and was not very forgiving.