It was common for this to happen rather quickly after the dead of a spouse, especially if there where young children needing care. If it was not a relative who they married, it was someone else. I would not consider it to be a skeleton in anyone's closet. Tina Ellis At 05:56 PM 6/5/2007 +1000, you wrote: >Last couple of days I have been chatting with my second cousin who is more >fanatically geneologically oriented than I. > >In AGAD he discovered our Great Grandfathers death certificate and on it >we discovered that he had married a second time. After that my cousin >found the second wifes death certificate and it appears that she was the >sister of the first wife (our mutual great grandmother). > >Funny thing is that noone is the family ever spoke of the second marriage. > >Does anyone know whether it was socially unacceptable to marry a second >time in the early 1930s and late 1920s. > >Also does anyone know anything about Szpanow near Rowno - that is where my >great grandmother Wanda Dabrowska and her sister Jadwiga came from. > > >Lucyna > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message