oh yes very true, I jsut thought since on 2 certs years apart one might have said it, thanks Jackie Angelika wrote: > > On both marriage certs it lists his father as Acton Taylor occupation > > Turner and neither show deceased. > > I've been caught out by this in the past... the fact that someone is NOT > described as "deceased" doesn't necessarily mean that he is alive. > Sometimes marriage certificates mention that a father is deceased... > sometimes they don't. If the marriage certificate says "deceased" there > is a good chance that he is... but if it doesn't then he may or may not be. > >