One can not automatically assume either way whether a birth for which one can find no marriage for the parents is illegitimate or otherwise. Because we can not find it, does not mean it does not exist, just as it may mean that it didn't. I have found Lancaster county's lack of county marriage records highly frustrating. The county I live in here in Nebraska has county marriage records going back much earlier than Lancaster which is a much, much older county. We can document two things: one what we found and where, and perhaps as valuable, where we looked and found nothing. Karen In a message dated 4/4/2009 9:51:00 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Lynn, I am trying very hard to control my temper and thus my comments......what I am telling you is to contact Eby researchers, who have looked high and low for a marriage between these two. They would like very much to have had a legitamite birth also. You cannot source what isn't there. If you want to call that gossip, then so be it. I wish you luck and if you ever do find something, please share it with the list.? Yvonne -----Original Message----- From: ltguidetti <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 9:09 am Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] PALANCAS Digest, Vol 4, Issue 52 I am not trying to argue with you. It is just that if someone "told" you something, it doesn't make it accurate. I like to have sources with info like this. Sources meaning documents, not the people who told you the story. It's one thing not to have a birth date or birth town, and pass that on, that is just a stat. But when there is a child involved (as well as the family line onward), passing on information like this without a source makes this kind of info little more than gossip. Whether or not my ggrandmother has been dead for 80 years, and whether or not I ever met her, she's still my dad's grandma. Not to mention - there are many, many people whom you can never find marriage records for, especially in pre-1900 PA. Some of my other grandparents, as well as my parents, were married in Maryland. But no one has their marriage records. Does that mean they were not married??? No. I found out yesterday that this gem of a guy was married not only two times, but three. He was married a second time in Ohio, just after my grandmother - and dumped the woman he married **because she was still married to her previous husband**!! Lancaster County has the divorce petition and I now have a copy. There's my source, it's not gossip. These two could have been both married and divorced out of the state. As for him, karma's a biotch. Lynn > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:28:32 -0400 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] 1870s Divorce Record? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > I didn't personally, but I have been told by some Eby researchers that this > has been done. I told you in a previous email that I made a mistake in > copying. The date of the Diem marriage was 1884. I don't want to argue, I am > only trying to help you.???? Yvonne > > > > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a recession. (http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare00000003)