Since this subject seems not to want to go away, I want to return to the original question (and my answer to it): > In some of the early marriage records in Kentucky (1800-1860), > it shows the word intermarriage between the two persons. > Exactly what did that mean in that time period - does anyone > know? It means that the two persons either had or were about to marry each other. Try not to read anything more complicated than that into it. It is possible that within the context of a specific case it might mean something different, but in the ordinary "legal" usage of the time - what was written in the county records - it meant only that the two people were about to or had already married. Any genealogist who operates under the popular or social (modern) definition of intermarriage - marrying outside one's group - is going to be in a whole lot of trouble. For one thing, you then have to accept the premise that almost every marriage in some juridictions in the above-mentioned time period were between persons of different social / religious groups - for almost all marriages are described as intermarriages. Regards, Richard "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com>