This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1408.2.1.2.1.2 Message Board Post: You need to remember that* many* of the marriage records in the IGI arent marriages at all, but banns. These were called in the bride and grooms parishes regardless of whether they were members of the established church. This is why you get 'double entries' showing them *married* in two parishes. All it means is that records have survived in both home parishes. You should always check the film or obtain a photocopy of the record. Sometimes the couple were married in another denomination and this could entail a journey to the nearest chapel for that group. Then you may be lucky and get the details of that ceremony complete with the name of the minister. Sometimes banns were called but no marriage took place so you cant assume from an IGI entry that a couple were married, even if it is a regular entry and not a patron submission. Judy