You may find the following information as fascinating and mind boggling as a I did. In regards to Catholics marrying prior to a revision of Canon Law in 1908, they were NOT required to be married by a priest. Thus those of us searching for marriage records prior to 1908 often find ourselves stumped. We should be looking in all traditions...for example in my own family search the nearest German church to where the couple lived happened to be a Lutheran Church. WOW....you learn something new every day. Elizabeth V. Cardinal evc1369@comcast.net