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    1. [OHHARRIS] Child out of wedlock
    2. This is a long shot, but it works in some cases to identify out-of-wedlock parents. There was such a relationship in my extended family that was identified thus: The baby's grandma instigated a court action to get money from her (unmarried) daughter's father. That's how we know where the Mystery Boy came from. I had suspected an out-of-wedlock birth, but that's how it was confirmed. Occasionally a baptismal record, if you can locate it, will show the true parents, but more often will just show the mother if the parents are not married. (I found one from Scotland that said "Born from fornication". Can't you just hear those angry Scots rolling those r's in forrrnication?!) Susan Osburn Osburn, Dickerson, Rankin, Harris, McFadden, etc.

    07/08/2002 06:06:04