Indicate a divorce
From Gramps
- How do I represent a divorce?
- Question
- I want to indicate that two people are divorced, yet Gramps does not have a Relationship type of Divorced. How do I represent this?
- Answer
- Divorced is not a relationship type. Instead, a divorce is an event in a Family. That event implies a legal status that terminates a relationship. Gramps recognizes that several Events can terminate a relationship.
If two people are divorced, it does not change the fact that they had a relationship type of Married. Divorce, like Death, is one way in which a marriage is terminated. Just as when widowed, the death of a spouse does not change the fact that two people were married; a divorce does not change the fact that two people were married.
Other Civil or Marital Status possibilities are:
- Single
- Married
- Divorced
- Widowed
Indicate a divorce in Gramps
So in Gramps to represent the marriage status that ended in divorce:
- Create a family
- Add both spouses
- Set the relationship type (from the default of unknown) to Married
- Select the Events tab
- Add an Event of type Marriage
- Add an Event of type Divorce