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Ancestry/Genealogy

no_hypocrisy

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1. Not on point to your inquiry, but marriage records gave me invaluable information.

Reply to OnDoutside (Original post)

Tue Feb 16, 2021, 05:58 AM

Feb 2021

I found my paternal grandfather registered twice within three years to marry two different women. At first, I guessed he was a bigamist. But he broke off the engagement to marry my grandmother. Since was 1904, the jilted bride sued him for Broken Promise, to the tune of $264,000+ in today's dollars. (It was 1904, and it created a scandal, making the jilted bride unmarriageable.) The registrations got me so far, and newspapers.com took me the rest of the way.

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US Marriage registration records, how to find what they contain ? [View all] OnDoutside Feb 2021 OP

Not on point to your inquiry, but marriage records gave me invaluable information. no_hypocrisy Feb 2021 #1

That IS a cool story ! Every family needs (and probably has) some story like that :) Actually re OP OnDoutside Feb 2021 #2

Yeah, after considerable searching wnylib Feb 2021 #3

I wonder would be that there were so many people flooding into an area, that a couple could just say OnDoutside Feb 2021 #4

They had a small farm in northwestern PA. wnylib Feb 2021 #5