From a while back with an update:
“An online tree indicates that an aunt of mine was married in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, in 1869. The only source that tree has for this date are two other online trees. There is no additional information to indicate how the information was obtained–no minister or justice of the peace name, no church, address, etc. A search of extant Hamilton County marriage records did not locate the marriage.
“The only way I know that my aunt married is because her husband’s name is listed when she inherits from her brother’s estate a few years later. That estate record is my evidence for the marriage and I’m using the date they are mentioned in the court record as a “married by” date. In my database I’m not indicating any marriage location.
Note: I did put the location in my notes on the aunt. The compiler did not respond.
Update: The aunt’s marriage record has been located in Campbell County, Kentucky, in 1852. The online tree had the location close, but the date was off. The aunt is listed in a probate record in 1869 with her married name and it’s possible that “before 1869” as a marriage date was truncated to 1869 at some point in the data entry or transfer of data made by the compiler of the online tree. Maybe. It turned out this wrong location was close. That does not always happen.
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