Michael, Let me add my thanks for providing the filter on List of Events which generates a list of these non-symmetric marriage events. 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. 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. 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! John Cordes On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 10:39:15AM -0600, Michael J. Hannah via wrote: > This thread has been discussing an obscure condition where the two > Principals do not both have their joint Marriage tag marked Primary. > > There is a concept of entering Marriage tags which will almost always > ensure that TMG will automatically mark both Principals as Primary. > > The concept is that when you add a new Marriage tag, always link both > Principals as part of the creation of that tag. Don't add and exit > creating the tag with only one Principal assigned. There are two > data-entry practices which will accomplish that. > > A- Ensure both spouses are added to the database BEFORE you add their > Marriage tag. Then you can assign both spouses either by directly > entering their IDs or using the Picklist as part of adding that new tag. > > B- If one spouse is not yet added, begin to add the Marriage tag to the > existing spouse. But BEFORE you OK out of that new tag, put your cursor > in the ID number field of the "other" spouse and click the "Add Person" > icon in the upper right of the Tag Entry window of this new Marriage tag > to add the other spouse. Once that spouse is entered, you can now > finally OK out of creating the new Marriage tag. > > Either method will aid TMG in ensuring appropriate settings for Primary. > > Hope this helps, > > Michael > > P.S. There are still ways the Primary settings could become > non-symmetric, including inadvertently doing it to your self, so the > Filter on the LOE should still be run once in a while as part of > "clean-up" actions on your project.