Why You Could Be Missing Your Ancestor's MARRIAGE Record (& Where To Look)

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@jeffbasom6467 2 года назад

my 5th great grandparents marriage unknown.he Lived between 1731 to either 1783 or 1805 in Greenville,Cumberland or Lancaster, be pa.

@lindakurtz2653 2 года назад

I've learned to ask myself the out of the box questions. Two, three generations ago it was common for fires, young death etc to happen. Often children of deceased parents were taken in by family and neighbors. Sometimes with legal paperwork, but often without it. Names were changed without any record. Hard situations to research, but almost common in that day.

@LisaLissonAYMC 2 года назад

You're right, hard situations, but more common than we like to think. Good for you for thinking outside of the box!

@jeffbasom6467 2 года назад

what if you found out,that the original records were destroyed. the debate is either 1810 or 1812.married by a court Judge the parents of my 3rd great grandfather in married in 1786 Bethal,Ontario Ny no primary records exist they both died in 1813 of spotted fever,3yrs after the purchase 167 acr. farm.they had 15 children

@LisaLissonAYMC 2 года назад

Sometimes the best you will be able to do in the face of significant record loss is a year range.

@melsolomon8256 Год назад

Why were so many courthouses in the south burnt down?

@deniseroeller7711 2 года назад

My grandmother claimed she married my grandfather in June of 1920, however in 1920 Census shows my Grandmother living with her Father and Aunt and my Grandfather was living with his mother and her Common law Husband!!! My Grandmother wasn’t 18 yo until October of 1920 and My GreatGrandMother supposedly had to sign for My Grandfather because he was only 15 yo 😏 My GrandMothers father was remarried in October of 1920 and I found his Marriage License… I’m assuming that GrandMother and GrandFather didn’t marry and just became Common Law as my GreatGrandMother?!?! This was in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana. What do you think?!?!

@LisaLissonAYMC 2 года назад

Very possible. I have a pair of ancestors who became "husband and wife" in the mid 1820's. They never married, but functioned as a married couple.

@deniseroeller7711 2 года назад

@@LisaLissonAYMC , My Grandparents went on to have 12 Children 😳 😅

@margaretford1011 2 года назад

I have ancestors who were married in 1823 in Lansingburgh, now Troy, New York. I know the exact date. And the only reason I know these things is because that information was supplied by the wife in an application for a military (War of 1812) pension. The informant was the widow. She stated, though, on the record, that insofar as she knows, there is no record of said marriage. I can add that there is also no record of any baptisms for their children. Yet, the husband was quite religious, asking to be buried with his bible. [Did that bible have the family vitals info in it, I wonder… and yet, I don’t think either of them could actually write their own names..signatures are only X marks. ]. I have checked all church records that I know of in Lansingburgh. But this was a time when there were all sorts of itinerant preachers roaming around so it has occurred to me that perhaps the officiant at this wedding was one of them, and that he didn’t keep records. I was wondering how common that might have been in the early 1800’s. Thanks, Lisa!

@LisaLissonAYMC 2 года назад

You have to love those 1812 pension records! Yes, there were itinerant ministers out there and certainly not all of the ministers returns made it back to the county clerk. It's really hard to say exactly how common it was, but the more rural the area and the earlier the time, we can see more of this.

@margaretford1011 2 года назад

@@LisaLissonAYMC The counties and the state of New York did not keep track of vitals back then, and not for several decades later. So there was no central civil clerk to report such things. We only have church and cemetery records for that time period. The older religions - Catholic, Lutheran, Episcopal - and those that had ministers from across the ocean - did pretty well with record keeping. The newer “American” religions, though, like Baptist and Methodists, were not so reliable. So many of their records seem to be more diligent about counting members, tithes and pew sales, than they were about recording vitals. And at the time, some of these ministers only held services in people’s homes, not having a church to call their own. Thanks for your response!