"Emanuel, Yvonne E CIV USA AMC" wrote: >[...] We are trying to figure out what "intermarriage >means "[...] >Catherine Belfon intermarried w/ Albert Belfon formerly Catherine Lucas. >[...] Does >anyone know what intermarriage means here? I think it either means two >cousins marrying or that they were of different races. Those are two >totally different definitions, so I'm seeking clarification. [...] It could merely mean "married". In a thread in soc.genealogy.methods with subject Meaning of "Intermarriage" singhals posted (7 April 2003. 17:31) a quote stated to be from pg 952, Black's Law Dictionary, 4th ed, 1951 ' in law, it is sometimes used (and with propriety) to empahsize the mutuality of the marriage contract and as importing a reciprocal engagement by which each of the parties "marries" the other. Thus, in a pleading, instead of averring that "the plaintiff was married to the defendant," it would be proper to allege that "the parties intermarried" at such a time and place.'