Custodian 4 – Marriages 1837+

The Marriages 1837+ table contains nearly 200 fields. To understand how Custodian 4 intended the user to populate the data, we can use the View Certificate facility, listed in the Shortcut Bar.

First create a new entry by clicking the Add Marriages 1837+ button. Then Click the View Certificate button under the Shortcut Bar.

Custodian 4 Displays a Window, formatted as a Marriage Certificate, and allows the user to enter the following 38 fields.

To gain a greater understanding the data should be added to the form from an original/copy of a marriage certificate

Fields 2, 36 and 38 are not present on this certificate as it has not been obtained from the Government Record Office as a certified copy. Field 36 is blank, are there is no fourth witness present.

You will notice that I have not numbered the Bride and Groom’s surname numbers, to follow immediately sequential to their forename’s.  This is due to the tab order of the form i.e. if your cursor is currently in the Bride’s Forename Column (17) and you press tab, your cursor will move to the Age field (19), not the Surname (24)

During the completion of the Custodian 4 – Marriage Certificate View form, you will find that certain fields, such as the Father of the Groom or Bride, have a button, which produces a pop up window to enter further information.

Of note is the Deceased field. If you enter Y in this field, in the Certificate View is should suffix the Father’s name with (deceased)

For the Bride and Groom and all Witnesses, a further button is available to enter similar information.

Interestingly, the Brief Note will appear on the signature part of the certificate and allows the user to enter the data exactly as it would appear on the certificate such as Issachar Stirk X his mark.

In the Data Views – we can manage this view to show all available columns, so we can check what information has been added to the table. We can now match the Data entered to establish which fields have been populated.

Note that I have also used the View Manager to alter the Caption names to better represent the data content, the field names (ColumnName) cannot be changed.

If we colour code the columns, we can see the entries in blue represent data that can be entered directly into the Certificate View window, whereas the other coloured items represent data that can be entered by pressing the Certificate View Individual’s button, which produces the popup window for data entry.

This Guide only covers the available fields that can be populated by the Certificate View. There are many other additional fields that you may wish to include. It has been produced to provide an insight into how Custodian 4 expects the data to be entered, and to which fields this data is associated with.