Version 2.51x: Because the "not Married" tag is not a GEDCOM standard and is interpreted by most GEDCOM import programs as a "Married" tag, I created the GEDCOM standard tag: FAM event type: family edit display: spouse name standard: GEDCOM desc: Family Group Verb: had children together Whenever this tag in in a story, either ancestral of descendant, the sentence reads: Bob and Mary were married. I make sure Bob and Mary have no marriage event, just the FAM event: why isn't CFTW 2.51X reading the event verb sentence? I have rebuilt the database and have made sure I checked Standard Events during the rebuild, as well. Karen Pastuzyn source: http://www.gendex.com/gedcom55/55gcappa.htm The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5 Appendix A Lineage-Linked GEDCOM Tag Definition FAM {FAMILY}: = Identifies a legal, common law, or other customary relationship of man and woman and their children, if any, or a family created by virtue of the birth of a child to its biological father and mother.

At 01:36 PM 9/3/01 -0400, you wrote: >Version 2.51x: >Because the "not Married" tag is not a GEDCOM standard and is interpreted by >most GEDCOM import programs as a "Married" tag, >I created the GEDCOM standard tag: > FAM >event type: family >edit display: spouse name >standard: GEDCOM >desc: Family Group >Verb: had children together > >Whenever this tag in in a story, either ancestral of descendant, the sentence >reads: > Bob and Mary were married. > >I make sure Bob and Mary have no marriage event, just the FAM event: why >isn't CFTW 2.51X reading the event verb sentence? > >I have rebuilt the database and have made sure I checked Standard Events >during the rebuild, as well. Because internally CFT-Win reconginizes only a few "marriage" type tags: MARR, NOTM, LTOG and if it never sees one of these for a couple then the story automatically creates a sentence "x and x were married" in order to show the spouse of the person whose story is being created. If the "not married" tag is being interperted as a marriage tag by other programs (which would not be a very bright idea if I was programming them) then I can almost certainly believe that any fictitious non-GED tag (such as FAM) will also be interpreted by other programs as a marriage tag. In other words, when CFT writes a GED neither NOTM not FAM are GEDCOM standards and they are treated the same way. So why another program would treat these two "unknown" tags is beyond me. Ira ------------------------------------------------ Mr. Ira J. Lund E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.cf-software.com Cumberland Family Software, 385 Idaho Springs Road, Clarksville TN 37043