John Cordes also remarked: > Let me add my thanks for providing the filter on > List of Events which generates a list of these > non-symmetric marriage events. Glad to help. It was finding obscure issues like this one and documenting them for myself that led me to finally organize and share those collected notes as my on-line book. > I found quite a number of such events in my own file > and it has been instructive, at least in a few cases, to > have my attention brought to those marriages. While there are likely to be only a few rare cases, I have also found identifying them to be instructive in my projects. > I also wanted to mention that my usual procedure for > adding a spouse to an individual who is already in my > database is to do an "Add wife", or "Add husband", as > appropriate. I have left the (default, I think) TMG prompt > for a marriage tag, so after entering the new spouse's > individual details the marriage tag screen comes up. Yes, that will also work, as it obeys the concept I mentioned that "whenever you add a new Marriage tag, always link both Principals as part of the creation of that tag." Your procedure will ensure that, *if* you accept the prompt and add the new Marriage tag at that point. > I don't know off hand why I have a considerable number of > asymmetric marriage tags, but I did start with TMG 5 (or > maybe 4?) so there's been lots of scope for strange things > to happen! Well there are several rather common ways to link a new spouse to a Marriage group tag. Prior to Version 8.05 some of them did not set this tag as Primary for the newly assigned spouse, even if that new spouse had no other tags in the Marriage group. Thankfully as of Version 8.05 TMG catches "most" of these and marks the tag Primary for that spouse. Michael