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From: "Keith Meintjes" <>
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Same sex marriages.
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:32:17 -0500


Mark,

Find the individual, double-click on their name. That will bring up their
information sheet. It seems to me, of the person is unmarried, you can change
the gender. If the person is married, you cannot.

If you have the genders of a married couple incorrrectly, I suppose you would
have to delete the marriage, flip the genders, and then remarry the couple.

Keith



------ Original Message ------
Received: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:20:47 PM EST
From: "Mark Pautz" <>
To:
Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Same sex marriages.

Hi Keith,

I have made that mistake too (i.e. allocating the wrong gender to an
individual) and there does not seem to be a way to change the gender in PAF
once it's be assigned. I reverted to deleting the individuals in question
and starting over. Is there perhaps an easier way to make these
corrections?

Regards, *MARK PAUTZ*

On 11/28/06, Keith Meintjes <> wrote:
>
> I ran into this issue in a related way when I was making a GEDCOM file
> from an Excel spreadsheet to import into PAF.
>
> In PAF the gender is "Male", "Female", or "Unknown". To create a
> marriage, the gender may not be "unknown"; one person must be male and the
> other female. So, I had to spend a few hours assigning a gender to each
> person in the database. (If you know how GEDCOM works, you will understand
> it would have been a lot more work to assign a gender only to those who
were
> married.)
>
> The problem, for me, is that it was not uncommon for females to have been
> given male names. In a few cases, I probably have the incorrect gender for
> unmarried individuals.
>
> Keith
>

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