[[Category{{languages|Indicate_a_divorce}};How do I represent a divorce? ;Question:''I want to indicate that two people are divorced, yet Gramps does not have a Relationship type of Divorced. How do I...]]represent this?''
== How do I represent ;Answer:''Divorced'' is not a relationship type. Instead, it is an event status that terminates the relationship. If two people are divorced, it does not change the fact that they had a relationship type of ''Married''. Divorce, like Death, is one way in which a marriage is terminated. Just as when widowed the death of a spouse does not change the fact that two people were married, a divorce? ==does not change the fact that two people were married.
''I want to indicate that two people Other Civil or Marital Status possibilities are divorced, yet GRAMPS does not have a Relationship type of :* Single* Married* Divorced. How do I represent this?''* Widowed
GRAMPS does not consider ''Divorced'' to be {{-}}==Indicate a relationship type. Instead, it is an event that terminates the relationship. If two people are divorced, it does not change the fact that they had a relationship type of ''Married''. Divorce, like Death, is one way divorce in which a marriage is terminated. Just as the death of a spouse does not change that fact that two people were married, a divorce does not change the fact that two people were marriedGramps==[[File:FamilyEditor-dialog-example-50.png|right|thumb|400px| {{man label|Family Editor}} dialog]]
So in Gramps to represent a the marriage status that ended in divorce:
# Create a family
# Add both spouses
# Set the relationship type to ''Married''# Select the Events tab# Add an Event of type ''Marriage''
# Add an Event of type ''Divorce''
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==See also==
* [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_1#Family_Editor_dialog]]
* [[Gramps_{{Version manual}}_Wiki_Manual_-_Entering_and_editing_data:_detailed_-_part_2#Editing_information_about_events]]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_status Marital status] - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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