This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burgess, Murphy, Waugh, Lucas Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0AC.2ACE/568 Message Board Post: Is there a data base or some other record where cohabiting slaves could list their marriages after the Civil War was over? The legislature decreed cohabiting blacks to be legally married on 27 February 1866.