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Life Partners

  • 20-04-2015 9:02pm
    #1
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭


    Just discovered I can't add someone as a life partner on Ancestry. It has to be a husband or a wife. Surely Ancestry will have to add another box for this. It could be tricky if there are several life partners to the one person but this man and his partner were together for over 40 years and of course no divorce then so not free to marry anyway.


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  • #2
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Ancestry is rather difficult in this area - being another LDS company I suspect they may not quite want to deal with the issue but they've no problem with the few people I've entered with 3+ wifes!


  • #3
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I will have to add her as a wife then, and add an explanatory note. Yep, I expected the Mormons wouldn't have much problem with us adding as many wives as we could manage, but bet there's not much leeway for several husbands mind! :D


  • #4
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    Ancestry is not a LDS company - only its very distant origins are. It's surprisingly small-minded of them. Does it allow you to add same-sex partners? My sub is not currently active so I can't make changes to my tree.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #5
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    That's not a situation I have in the tree (yet) but we should give it a go and see what happens.


  • #6
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I will have to add her as a wife then, and add an explanatory note. Yep, I expected the Mormons wouldn't have much problem with us adding as many wives as we could manage, but bet there's not much leeway for several husbands mind! :D

    I have Ancestry – started out donkeys years ago with Family Tree Maker and now have the latest Ancestry/FTM 2014 version, but do not have a subscription. AFAI can see, it does not have ‘partner’ - the option is for “Spouse” but you can make the sex of the spouse male or female regardless. And it allows for multiple spouses, male & female, but it requires you to 'toggle' between them as you must nominate the 'main' one.


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  • #7
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I don't use the software but just put my tree on Ancestry.co.uk.


  • #8
    pedroeibar1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,108 ✭✭✭pedroeibar1


    I like Ancestry/FTM, but begrudge having to upgrade periodically. The paid software version is great for record keeping, has a feature to upload photos, all sorts of bells & whistle most of which I do not use. I have not put my tree (s) online. I also have access to a few trees on 'MyHeritage' that friends/relatives have put up, and while I find them OK, I lean towards FTM.
    Maybe I should have posted this on the other thread?:o


  • #9
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,544 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    Does it allow you to add same-sex partners? My sub is not currently active so I can't make changes to my tree.

    It does, but you get errors such as "wife's grandfather" for your husband/partner/whatever's grandfather.

    You can still edit and add to the tree on a non-active sub - I've only paid for one month on an offer since early 2013 at this stage.


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