Report format for two living spouses for the same deceased individual

By VelvetWood on Thu, 07/09/2020 - 20:29

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I've run into two living spouses. I've been entrenched in researching the distant past I've never had to include living names in a report. Is there a standard format to indicate marriages exist with living ex-spouses? Do you report the marriage places and dates but note the spouses as LIVING? Is there a good source for handling reports that include the living?

My thought is to format report...
JOHN SMITH born New York 5 September 1924, died Boston Massachusetts 1 June 1993. Married first LIVING and married second LIVING...

Submitted byEEon Fri, 07/10/2020 - 08:49

VelvetWood, this is a question for your software, given the context in which you use the word "report" for a family narrative. Software produces reports—i.e., a "report" of the data you've fed into the software—and they produce many different types of those "reports." For advice on how to word something in a field of your software to get the  output you desire, your fellow users of that software could answer that question better.

In the history-research world, the word "report" has a significantly different meaning and describes a significantly different product. See "QuickLesson 20: Research Reports for Research Success."

And in the writing world—for a genealogical narrative or a biography—we'd tackle that sentence from a few other perspectives.