Pedigree Forge handles multiple spouses or partners. There are three ways to add another spouse to the currently selected person:
Tip — If the new wife is actually an earlier wife than the one already entered, use Add former spouse directly rather than adding her and then reordering. The spouses will end up in the correct chronological order automatically.
The dynamic chart shows all spouses. Following convention, the husband is flanked by the wives when there are multiple marriages.
When a person has more than one spouse, a drop-down list appears in the People panel showing the current active spouse. Use this to switch between them. The facts table shows couple facts for the active spouse with asterisks (e.g. *Married*), while couple facts for other spouses are shown without.
Spouses should be in chronological order. If they end up out of order, select the spouse you want to move and use Move spouse up or Move spouse down — available from ‘Edit > Spouses‘, the chart right-click menu, or the vertical-dots (⋮) button next to the Status drop-down.
Sometimes a child needs to be added without creating the other parent — for example, when the father is unknown. Select Edit > Children and choose "Add illegitimate child without father" (the wording adjusts based on the selected person’s sex). This creates a new family with only one parent, sets the couple status to "Never Married", and marks the child’s linkage as illegitimate.
A similar option exists for cases where the child is not illegitimate but you simply do not want to create a record for the other parent. This creates the family without setting the illegitimate flag.
To add more children to either kind of single-parent family, use Edit > Children > Add child to this family with the known parent as the active person.