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Searching marriage records for London by witnesses?
Today a key piece of information about my 4th great grandmother Sarah Osment Smyth came to my attention when @ValerieFennell wrote:
I have Sarah Osment Smyth as witness at the marriage of James ...
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Who did my great-great-great-grandfather marry?
I can say that my interest for genealogy started when I got my great-great-grandfather baptism record from Ciudad Real, Spain. This is the record (online version in Family Search):
It's a bit hard to ...
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Did late 18th century naval ship captains conduct weddings? If so, where would these be recorded?
A pair of direct forebears, my 3xgreat-grandparents, eloped in the early-mid 1790s. He, Edward McDowell, had been the family coachman when he ran away with Susan of unknown surname. A 1797 naval ...
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Record of 1890s UK consular marriage in Japan?
In the 1890s there was consulate in Kobe, and I am trying to determine whether the consulate issued a particular certificate of marriage.
Did the consulate provide witness to such marriages?
If the ...
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Determining if mid-18th century signatures are from same hand?
All three are by the groom in an English marriage certificate. #1 from 1751 lists him as a bachelor; #2 from 1758 lists him as a widower; #3 from 1763 does not specify a marital status. All are from ...
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When and where did Mary Thomas b. abt 1793 in Port of Menteith, Dunbartonshire marry her (first) Hutcheson husband and what was his forename?
Who was the Hutcheson or Hutchison who could have married a Mary Thomas, possibly in Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire around 1810-1820?
We now know that Mary died in Davidson, Tennessee in 1868. Some ...
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Finding Marriage of Elizabeth Smith Julian and Newton Bonner in 1840s Kentucky, North Carolina or Tennessee?
John Robert Bonner, was born in Missouri, on May 19, 1845.
His father, Newton Bonner, was born in Kentucky and I don’t know the year.
His mother Elizabeth Smith Julian is the Daughter of John ...
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Finding first marriage of William Franklin Greenfield of Patterson, Caldwell Co., North Carolina, USA?
I have been researching my Great-Grandfather, William Franklin Greenfield for many years and this is the timeline I have for him:
William was born around 1854 or so.
William was married to my Great-...
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Proving identity of Japanese great grandfather when no marriage record?
I am trying to prove who my great-grandfather is. I investigated many records (Kobe Directory, Japanese "koseki"), and even DNA testing, but I'm still not sure.
In the Japanese koseki, the name Mr ...
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British India records for Native Indians and Pakistanis
Where can I find birth, death, and marriage records, as well as the register of persons for British India for Native Indians and Pakistanis? As far as I know, the people that I am researching are all ...
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What is a spinster widow in a North Carolina marriage record?
I found a marriage record:
"North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 (FamilySearch)," database with images,
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March 2021), W J Moses Knight and Charity Wenton, 22 Sep 1761;...
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Finding 1911 marriage record from Poland
My grandfather Stanislaw Czyzyk was born 23 May 1885 at Kurpiecz or Grodno.
My grandmother Julia Zinkowski was born 19 Mar 1896 in Czernawta (as far as I could find in old records, or Bialystok which ...
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Can anything be assumed from the use of "Jungfrau" in an old German marriage record?
For the Braunschweig family, I have been able to find record of and to connect every person in the Creuzburg, Germany area of the 1600s. There were two Elisabetha Braunschweigs alive and unmarried in ...
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Marriage Dates not included in detailed reports
My question is about reporting of marriage dates in GRAMPS output reports. I am using GRAMPS AIO64-5.1.2-1. When I print detailed reports the marriage dates ARE NOT shown in the various reports. I ...
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Locating missing marriage records
For context, everything here is Pancras, London, England.
I have an ancestor (Harriet Deady, formerly Thompson, originally Gammon, my 2nd g. grandmother from Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North ...
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