Well, along this thread: My grandparents were married on 7 August 1910, according to their family Bible. The marriage certificate, on file at the Chavez County courthouse in Roswell, NM, signed by the minister who married them, states the wedding date as 10 Aug 1910. So according to the "official" document, my grandparents were wrong in recording their wedding as 7 August. Perhaps that was the day they obtained the marriage license or bond? Who knows? The only thing I'm pretty certain of in this case is that they were married on one of these fine days in August. Errors occur for all sorts of reasons. I noticed that my great-great-grandmother Permelia Ann Reynolds, in one census recorded while she was living with her second husband, was listed as "age 39" when in fact she was 45, according to her family bible information and other censuses. Might this have anything to do with the fact that her then-new husband listed his age as 40? Perhaps she fibbed about her age both to younger husband AND [Heaven Forbid] the census-taker? In later censuses her age is recorded accurately, but by then she was no longer wed to a younger man. Surely she has to have been the only woman in history to have fibbed about her age or other statistics to a government official? <evil snicker> Jim Devenport (DNA participant anxiously awaiting results of the test. Hoping I really AM a Devenport, and not the milkman's son, as my Dad often joked)