"Leona Mastan" <[email protected]> wrote: > Am I misunderstanding something? > FO 8 lets me add several marriage facts for the same couple without >adding additional spouses. Yes, I see I better clear up what I meant when I said what I said! <g> What FO will not let you do is have two different families with two different family groups, each with its own set of children different than the children in the other group and yet the spouses in the two different family groups still the same two people. A case where each spouse is shown to have another spouse and it turns out to be the same spouse. You can indeed show the two spouses to marry, then divorce, then marry again and do it all over still again if they wish, but it will all be shown within the same family group and all the children from the various marriages will be shown together in the same family group and not separated in relation to which marriage period they were born during. FO will not allow you to enter the first case above but it will allow you to import such a situation via a gedcom file. When you import such a situation where the same two spouses have two different family groups and each spouse is shown to have other spouses which are the same ones, the only way to correct that is to unlink the spouses and relink them. As soon as you unlink one spouse, all the spouse links in both families are broken, for FO will not distinguish between more than one family link between the same two people and therefore will delete both links. When you unlink the spouses, all marriage and family events will be lost and will have to be re-entered after the spouses are relinked. (Family links are not the same thing as marriage events). I should not have said marriages when I meant Family Groups. Wayne League