First, let me thank all of you who helped me locate Haute Saureé — I appreciated your help. I have another question now about marriage records in the early 1800s that I'm hoping someone can help me with. When a marriage record has the Latin word Dismissio next to it what would that signify? The other records simply have matrimonium. Could Dismissio perhaps mean the marriage took place somewhere other than the parish church? Jane in Colorado

Ordinarily a Catholic wedding would take place in the parish church of the bride. If there was a sufficient reason to hold it in a different parish, the person was "dismissed" to go there. It was a form a permission for an exception to the general practice. Joe Folzenlogen