In a message dated 7/18/2002 7:53:59 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Perhaps I'm not understanding something here, but I just went to a > person, at ramdom, and added a marriage to the same person they were > already married to, in fact I added three such marriages. No divorces, > just four marriages to the same person, with the same record numbers, > and it shows up as this person having four spouses, all the same person. > > So what's with this "cannot create that condition from within FO"? Wayne is talking about adding marriage "events". He is talking about linking two people together as a couple more than once. Try this... 1. Highlight a person in your database that has a spouse 2. Click the "Add spouse" button 3. Select "Link to an existing person" 4. Try to select the already linked spouse as a new spouse 5. FO will tell you these people are already married and won't let you link them again. - Bruce http://rootsmate.com