I think we all learn a little when we read these stories and it gives us insight as to
things that can/did make things confusing.
-----Original Message-----
From: Antoinette Waughtel Sorensen <waughtel33(a)gmail.com>
To: inshelby(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tue, Jun 29, 2010 10:06 am
Subject: Re: [INSHELBY] Mariages
I enjoy these stories also. I remember one year I was on a research trip to
ndiana and met a distant cousin through my Waughtel line, in Columbus. I
ad taken several notebooks, notes etc., so I wouldn't duplicate anything.
his distant cousin brought along her daughter and we were going through
nformation and I mentioned that her parents marriage "listing" showed
license" and no recording date. She was quite "furious" to say the least
hat I thought her parents were not married and she said - THEY WERE MARRIED
<smile> and I showed her the page I had photocopied. So here is another
ase of not having a marriage actually "recorded". I have been told in many
nstances "way back when" that many of the ministers were "traveling
inisters" - they would marry a couple (and/or couples) on the way to where
ver they were headed and then record the marriage on their way back (if
hey still had the paperwork). And many times they did not come back
hrough the same area.
Another story, and although my daughter & I get a "charge" out of it, her
usband does not <lol>. They married in 1995 (his first, her second) and
hen the minister filled out the papers she must have looked at the "year"
s she wrote my daughter's age as 95 - this was not noticed until a
ew years later, and my daughter had to get a copy from the courthouse for
ome reason or other, and the clerk noticed it and said she would change
hat as she said "anyone can tell you were not 95".
Antoinette (Tacoma, Washington)
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Phyllis Miller Fleming <
hyllis(a)shelbycountyindiana.org> wrote:
How I love to hear the stories. You must have fun telling this one.
----- Original Message -----
From: <olee1(a)aol.com>
To: <inshelby(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [INSHELBY] Mariages
Phyllis,
Maybe there were also ministers back then like the one who married my
husband and I. A year after we married, we had never received a copy of
the certificate back in the mail. We kept inquiring with our minister
and
he'd tell us things like, "I checked and the clerk's
office is behind.",
and later "I checked and it's in the outbox ready to be mailed back to
you". After this went on awhile I called the clerk's office myself and
they replied "The minister has never mailed it back to us, so as far as
we
were concerned you let it lapse without ever using it."
Soooo....legally
we weren't even married. We later found out he'd done that to several
couples who married that year. If that happened back in the 1800s people
might never have followed up on it and the marriage would never have been
recorded.
Olive
-----Original Message-----
From: Phyllis Miller Fleming <phyllis(a)shelbycountyindiana.org>
To: inshelby(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Sun, Jun 27, 2010 7:03 pm
Subject: Re: [INSHELBY] Mariages
That explains why there are some licenses issued and no marriage date
isted. I always thought that meant they had changed their minds. Thanks
or the info.
P
---- Original Message -----
rom: <tlkar(a)aol.com>
o: <INSHELBY(a)rootsweb.com>
ent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 5:10 PM
ubject: [INSHELBY] Mariages
I have recently discovered that a marriage license can be issued by any
county in Indiana and used in any other county. The county where the
license was issued is the county where the record is kept regardless of
where in Indiana the marriage took place.
This is the reason I have not found the license or marriage place of some
of my family.
I live in Kansas and the law is the same here and also in Missouri. This
is not true for all states - in some states the license must be used in
the county where it was obtained.
Kathy Ridlen
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