Hi Folks: I have not been following the debate about the new database;but it is not unlike previous attempts to index vitals stats- marriages. As with the county marriage registers there are a number of misspellings/ and interpretations of names and places. Some of my experience with new data base includes variations of zinck , zinc, zink and other spellings that I could not recognize at all. Searches are hampered by incomplete or obtuse locations such as east dover without halifax or County this causes you to search on many different levels some time all locations work when an event is in Halifax County but a search with Halifax Co. does not result in the same search result. At other times when I know when and where a person died from an obit, I use the range feature and a multiple variations on the surname to eventually find the person. I trust the NSARMS will make an effort to encourage the reporting of errors, misspellings and omissions to improve the database which is such a valuable tool. And in general it is a gold mine of information.. Ron Zinck On 4/19/07, Jack Simon <rjmsimon@knology.net> wrote: > > Who knows? Maybe some of those Canadians who married each other possibly > showed up as married in USA, or even in Europe, during World War II, and > that's why their marriages didn't show up in Canadian records. They > didn't > show up in the Canadian records because they had already been married in > USA, or Europe. I have relatives in Nova Scotia, where the wife was born > in > Holland, and the husband, Canadian mililtary, was born in NS, all this > during World War II. In order for the Canadian military to pay for the > Dutch war bride's boat passage to Canada, they probably got married in the > Netherlands, and therefore, her passage to Canada, as the wife of a > Canadian > military man, was paid for by the Canadian military. Certainly a > financial > savings. > > Certainly there were many more World War II war brides, than there were > common-law-marriages, in those days. > > If the missing marriages don't show up, I'd at least look in USA for their > marriage records, unless none of them had ever been as adults to USA. My > own maternal grandparents, both Canadian born and raised, were married in > Boston, Mass. USA in 1899. I queried the City of Boston for their > marriage > record. It wasn't there, in the Boston records. Consequently, I queried > the Boston, Mass. State House on Beacon Street for the marriage record. > They found it. My grandparents had been married in Hyde Park, Mass. In > 1899 Hyde Park was a separate entity, and not part of the City of Boston > then. Hyde Park became part of the City of Boston some time after their > 1899 marriage. That's why their marriage record did not show up in the > City > of Boston marriage records. > > I hope my experiences will help someone. > > Jean (MacGregor) Simon > Huntsville, Alabama > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Hegerich" <bobh36@cox.net> > To: <NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com> > Cc: "Lunen-Links" <LUNEN-LINKS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:04 PM > Subject: [NS-L] Missing Marriages in Vitals DB > > > > Hi All: > > > > I occurs to me, after participating in the discussion about marriages on > > this list, that common-law marriage may be the reason why a number of > people > > whose obit says that are survived by a spouse don't show up in the NS > Vitals > > database. I.e., the database contains, almost by definition, only > > solemnized marriages. > > > > In the US, in those fifteen states (plus the District of Columbia) where > > common-law marriage is still recognized, one of the requirements for it > to > > be a legally valid marriage is that the couple must present themselves > to > > the community as Mr. and Mrs. So-and-so, husband and wife. Now I know > that > > Canada's laws regarding common law marriage are different, but I wonder > if > > that's how a number of the people who show up in various documents as > "Mrs. > > So-and-so" got to be same. > > > > -----Bob H----- > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Basic List Commands: > > > > 1. To post to the list > > Send a message to: > > NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com > > > > 2. How to unsubscribe > > a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- > > request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word > > unsubscribe > > > > b. 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