Maybe a search on marriage via the internet, then? Jared > In message <[email protected]>, Jared > Handspicker <[email protected]> writes: >>For Proxy marriage laws in the US: >> >>Double Proxy Marriages - Montana is the only state where Double Proxy > [] >>Single Proxy Marriages - In a proxy marriage ceremony, one member of the >>couple attends while a proxy stands in for the absent party. >> >>There are only a handful of US states where proxy ceremonies can be > [] >>Only four states allow for proxy marriages - California, Colorado, Texas, >>and Montana. The majority of them are either military marriages (while >> one > [] > I didn't mean a proxy where someone "stands in" for one (or both! that > hadn't occurred to me!) party/ies; I meant one where the remote party is > in audio - and, these days, video - contact, so there is no need for a > proxy to say the "I do" for them; and where both ends are in a room > (rooms) where there are sufficient local dignitaries present that any > reasonable suspicion of either subterfuge or coercion can be discounted. > -- > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)[email protected]+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf > > All that glitters has a high refractive index. > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------ Jared "Jed" Handspicker Usque Saeculis Vigilem