Error message makes no sense [closed]

Question

I'm getting an error message when I try to save https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Cogswell-723&action=edit 

Last I heard, 1754 came before, not after, 1793.  What gives????

 A marriage date (19 Nov 1754) should not be after a spouse's death date (Burnham-2013 died 12 Apr 1793)

Comments

I see you removed Margaret's death date.  Happy to help out.  Don't mention it.

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you could also change it to 20 Nov 1754 and chose "after"

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Well, the error message doesn't make sense, since it displays the death date of the husband, who has a death date well after the wedding - instead of the death date of the wife, which seems to have been a month before the wedding (before removal).

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Herbert, thank you anyway - help is always thank-able.

Steven, thanks, but I don't think the November marriage involved her, so I'm really reluctant to accommodate it even that much.  I'm working on that.

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Thanks, Eve.  I'm really glad someone else can see why the error message confused me.

Answer 1

She married Francis Burnham a month after she died.

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Thanks for the star, Bobbie! 

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Thank you, Bobbie.

I'd removed the death date on a hunch, although it didn't seem related to the error message.  It's nice to know that my hunch actually may have solved the problem and that I won't have to wonder whether it'll come back to haunt me.

Answer 2

"Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5L-73D : 6 November 2017), Margaret Burnham, 26 Sep 1793; citing Death, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 777,636.

I found the record for her death. Does this help at all?

26 Sep 1793 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States.

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Thank you, Steve.  This helps me a lot with my arguments for the wife of Francis Burnham/Burnam being someone other than Margaret Cogswell Goldsmith - once that marriage is off the profile, I can add back the tentative date of death I had there previously (before 23 Oct 1754, which is when her husband signed guardianship bonds for their children).