Much of my family settled in Saginaw in the late 1800s before eventually migrating down to Detroit in the 1920s. I've done a lot of research in Saginaw records for my Brandi family members, and have found a number of cousins. But I've got one brick wall that's standing in my way. I can't find a marriage record for my great-grandparents. My great-grandfather, Ralph A. Brandi Sr., was born in San Potito Sannitico, Italy, and came to Saginaw with his parents Vincenzo and Maria around 1888. Ralph married Helen Prillwitz on 2 August 1890, which I found in the Saginaw marriage records on microfilm from the LDS. They divorced around 1909-10 (the records I found at the State Archives in Lansing were inconclusive on this), and sometime between 1910 and 1912, Ralph appears to have married Antonina Wisniewski. I say appears to have because Ralph fathered a child in 1912 with a woman the Saginaw county records recorded as Anna Washnaski, which seems to be a possible distortion of Antonina's name, although it's possible that this is another woman. Birth records for my grandfather in 1919 and his sister in 1918 definitely show Ralph as father and Antonina (or Antonia, or Anthonia, as she was alternately known) as the mother. Antonina is listed as having been born in Bay City in the early 1880s. I've looked at the birth records there, and there are more than one Antonina Wisniewski born in Bay City during those years, so I need to find out who her parents were. I've searched the Saginaw county marriage records available through the LDS and found nothing. Figuring that maybe they got married in the bride's hometown, I searched Bay county marriage records between 1907 and 1920 and found nothing. When I was at the State Archives in Lansing last summer, I searched the statewide index of marriages multiple times between 1907 and 1920 and found nothing. If they got married in Michigan, it doesn't appear to be in the records. I expect to search marriage records for surrounding jurisdictions to see if perhaps they travelled out of state to get married (given the divorce and some other circumstances, this doesn't seem unlikely). But before I start looking, I'd like to know if there were any places I should focus on first. I've been reading about "Gretna Green" marriage mills (named after a town in Scotland that catered to English people who wanted to marry quickly) that married all comers with few questions asked. Does anyone know of any such towns or counties near Michigan that would qualify for such a designation in around 1910-1912? I looked through the list archives on Rootsweb and didn't find anything about this. Antonina died in 1926 at the Traverse City State Hospital, and her death certificate was not much help. The "informant" on her certificate was the hospital records, and they didn't list her parents. Because of the circumstances of her death (the hospital was an insane asylum to which I'm told she was mistakenly committed by the family priest), it appears there was no obituary in the newspapers at the time, not that I could find anyway. With the lack of information on her parents on the death certificate, the marriage record seems the best way to break through this brick wall. Any suggestions on where to look would be gratefully appreciated. Thanks. Ralph Brandi