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ex-wife(husband) widow(er)

Jānis Kaļinovs

January 07, 2013 17:06

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Add an option ex-wife(husband) (widow(er))

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  Bjørn P. Brox January 07, 2013 18:03

  Take a closer look the next time to edit the relastionship tab on a profile.

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  Jānis Kaļinovs January 07, 2013 18:14

  I did and options are:

  husband

  fiance

  partner

  ex-husband(divorced)

  ex-partner

  Is those options limited because I am Geni basic?

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  Bjørn P. Brox January 07, 2013 18:39

  The only limitation here is naturally: you don't get an option to mark someone as an ex-wife if that person is a man.

  The status widower etc does also depende on the deceased/living status.

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  Jānis Kaļinovs January 07, 2013 18:51

  If wife had a husband an he is deceased, but she has married again, than there is no option of status widow?

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  Bjørn P. Brox January 07, 2013 19:02

  No, why should you?

  His deceased status defined what he will be listed as to her.

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  Jānis Kaļinovs January 07, 2013 20:26

  Ok. I got your point. Thanks for clearing this stuff.

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  Kathy Sue Knezovich January 25, 2017 23:34

  Not so. My step mother was widowed before she married my dad. Even though her former husband is deceased, the system says they are divorced, which she NEVER divorced, and I do not want public record stating a falsehood. There needs to be an option for widowed. I do not want to remove a vital part of my tree, but IF it HAS to say they are divorced, when he died, I will be forced to remove them, and possible find a family tree site that allows for widow/widower.

   

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  Jeff, Geni Curator January 26, 2017 16:16

  That's because the relationship to her deceased husband is defined as an ex-spouse, which is incorrect.  He was her spouse and he died.  That doesn't make him an ex-spouse.  An ex-spouse is someone you divorced.  A widow is just a deceased spouse, not an ex-spouse.

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  Ruth Jaskiewicz Caprow July 22, 2017 05:23

  Yes, I have an issue with the "ex" status. In parenthesis the choice says (divorced). There is not a "widow" option. This is especially critical for genealogical purposes when a man or woman lost previous spouses through death, not divorce.

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  Minette Capper June 01, 2019 20:25

  Could Geni please add a field for widow or widower. I see quite a few people have asked for this. I am trying to do my tree properly, and have great grandparent who's spouse died, and he got married again. The only option s are ex-wife (divorced) or ex-husband (divorced), and ex-partner. They had never divorced. The wife died and he remarried.

  Please note: I DO NOT wish to put divorced, as this makes the record inacurate. This is not a difficult request. Please add this asap