Creating a Book

[Buttercup57]

When I create a book I have a family with a second marriage but it only shows the first. I added the first marriage after the first because I found out about it later, can I correct this please? Thanks

[Deb]

In most instances where both spouses do not appear in a book, it is due to one of these scenarios...
1. The book created begins with the person who was married twice AND it is an Ancestor book.
2. The book created begins with an ancestor or descendant of the "spouse" of the person who was married twice.

If you are seeing this as a result of a different scenario, please let us know what type of book is being created how the source person of the book is related to the person who was married twice.

Note: regarding correcting the order of spouses, you may do this in your family file by going to the family view showing one of those marriages —1st or 2nd. Then, click on the person menu button (the red "v" icon) of the person who was married twice and select Spouses & Children > Edit Spouses...

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Next, in the Edit Spouses window, drag them into the correct order...

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Note: you can also specify one of the spouses as the Preferred spouse in this window.

Then, click the Close button.

I hope this information is helpful

[Buttercup57]

I have managed to sort the spouses now and make the first wife (Mulligan) come first. The second wife (Morris) is the ancestor family name and I wanted to show both marriages for her its important to her story. So it's the Morris story I am doing and it still leaves of the Mulligan marriage. So I presume I have to do a separate Mulligan story to incorporate her full story, I think that's what you are saying. If I use the prefer button for Mulligan, it only tells that part of the story, I was hoping to be able to blend it together - thank you for your help I can see that it's a separate story.