The Couples List

What Is the Couples List?

List Window

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What Is the Couples List?

The Couples list is designed to show you...couples. It appears in the Sidebar and the List window.

The Couples list includes every "couple" in the family file. Thus, every individual in a family record who appears alongside another person will be included in the list (whether married, unmarried, partner, etc. — marital status doesn't matter).

To see the Couples list...

  1. Click the List button, under a sidebar (such as People, Relatives, Places, Results or Couples) or press Command-L.
  2. Click the Couples button in the navbar of the List window.

Like other lists in the List window, the Couples list has many features, including...

Couples can be listed and sorted in many different ways by choosing different fields for the columns; in particular, the Name field.

The Family Name

The "Family Name" is a special field which may appear...

The Family Name describes a couple, and it contains the first, middle, last names of a husband and wife (along with their name suffix or prefix titles, if any).

For example, consider the couple of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. The Family Name would be: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette.

Each couple appears once, leading with the husband's name.

People without spouses do not have a Family Name, and thus don't appear in the Couples list.