How does one record someones name on a family tree if the person is divorced and

Question:I'm helping my nephew do a short family tree that he's doing for a school assignment. My grandparents divorced and my grandmother remarried. Is there some standardized way that a divorce and remarriage is written on the form? What is it? And should her second husband be on the form somewhere?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm helping my nephew do a short family tree that he's doing for a school assignment. My grandparents divorced and my grandmother remarried. Is there some standardized way that a divorce and remarriage is written on the form? What is it? And should her second husband be on the form somewhere?

While many people like to use their own designs for visual interest.. the basic "tree" (or pedigree chart) is for tracing direct lineage back. I am assuming that grandma's first husband is the actual parent, so he is who would show on this style of chart. Grandma shows also, but using her maiden name (since that links her back to her parents, further on the chart). In this usage, 2nd husband does not properly show.
The 2nd form used in standard genealogy is called a family group sheet.. this one shows an immediate family.. husband, wife, and children.. but ALSO includes relevant info. That means names of both parents of the husband, and the wife. Other children of the (grand) parents are not here. those show on their own family group sheet. On this sheet, one would add a line like "married 2nd John Jones" with maybe the date and place of that marriage.
If John and grandma then have children from that marriage.. they appear on a family group sheet of their own.. where John is now the husband and grandma the wife. (with note again.. grandma md 1st.. to link it to the other group sheet).
All of this is built into standard genealogy programs.
www.familysearch.org is the LDS church site, and they have an excellent free program called PAF that you can download in a few minutes. It stores the information, and can print the charts out for you.

Yes, there is.
Normally, there is a line connecting partners. In the case of your grandmother, there would be two lines - one connecting to the first husband with the note m19xx, the second to the second husband with the note m19xx (fill in the date). And yes, he should be named as well. the 'm' stands for married and it will be obvious that the first husband was divorced, not deceased, because his DOB and DOD (date of birth and date of death) will clearly show that he was still alive when his ex-wife remarried.

There is no need to record the 2nd husband's name, as he is not directly related, by blood, to your nephew.
Since it's for school, there is no need to record the divorce.

When recording women's names, do not record their married last name, list them by their maiden/last name at birth.
Ex: John Black m. June Green

In a few cases the maiden name and the married name have been the same; if so, the maiden name should be listed with the word nee in front of the maiden name.
Ex: John Black m. June nee Black

Since it's for school, just record her under her maiden name, then do a dotted line for the first marriage (some people put a slash mark through it) and a solid line for the current marriage.

Usually when an individual, for whatever reason, has married more than once, the line that joins them to spouse number 1 looks like this ....Married at (place) 01.01.19xx (1) Divorced 01.01.19xx and the line that joins them - usually on the opposite side - to spouse number two looks the same with ....Married at (place) 10.01.19xx (2). If the first spouse has died then of course that infomation is usually included boxed with their name and dob.