> I went off to an on-line database, created and maintained by a > state's own government. I scoured it for a fairly uncommon surname, > and copied the results into the database I created from a 1980s book > on the family. > > I gotta tell you, there are some SERIOUS discrepancies between > Marriage Record A and Marriage Record B! [snip] > Then there's the one where every detail of bride and groom match the > database -- birthdates & places -- except that the marriage date > makes him 11 months old at the time. I /don't/ think so. > > So, all the info is in the NOTES and discrepancies are marked. Let > someone who doesn't know the participants figure it out. > > Bah. Humbug. > > Cheryl Singhals <singhals@erols.com> That difference in age could be from transposing the last two digits of a year - possible in this case? John