As you suggest the marriage may have been performed in one place and recorded in another. In some cases the second church may have "blessed" the original marriage and then recorded the "blessing" with both the original date and the date of the "blessing". It also may be that the researchers knew that people were living in a particular place and ASSUMED that they were married in THAT place. [It is always dangerous to assume...] AND there may have been two couples with the same names, however, this is the least likely of the propositions. Until you can see the original records yourself you probably should record both sets of facts AND to whom those "facts" can be attributed. You MAY be able to resolve this. Then again you may never be able to resolve this conflict and it will just get added to the pile of other conflicts of data that are stored as "HISTORY". ----- Original Message ----- From: Terry Wilson <twilson11@rocketmail.com> To: <SEAMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 11:11 AM Subject: [SEAMAN-L] Veracity > OK you experienced and savvy group of researchers, I > need an explanation - or postulation - or wild guess. > I have a conflict here: > > >From church records in Yorktown, Westchester Co NY: > James G. SEAMAN m Mary CRONK on 29 Jun 1822 > > >From IGI Batch M526081 and also from a private > researcher: > James Grummon SEAMAN m Mary CRONK 29 Jun 1822 in > Bergen NJ > ----- > What are the odds of 2 James G. SEAMANs m 2 Mary > CRONKS on the same day hundreds of miles apart ????? > > Why ????????????????????? > How ????????????????????? > Huh ????????????????????? > > Both supposedly documented in original material !!!! > Other research now indicates NJ as the most prob & > then they headed north & then west. Could the church > in Westchester Co transcribed/recorded their marriage > date if they joined the church there for awhile ??? > If Westchester Co was her home area (quite possible) > could they just have recorded the marriage there ???? > > Somebody please offer an explanation that I can buy. > > Terry > > > > === > Terry Wilson > 40 S. Gamble Street > Shelby, OH 44875 > Researching: ALLEN, COLTMAN, EDMAN, FERRIS, > HARLAN/HARLAND, > HOLLENBAUGH, HORNER, JANNY/JANNEY/JENNING, KELLER, > KLINKLE, KRUNK/CRUNK/CRONK,MARING/MEARING, MAY, > McCORMIC/McCORMICK, SEAMAN, SHOMO, SIFFERLIN, > TOUSLEY/TOSELEY, & WILSON > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > >