It\u2019s possible that your relative got married in a church other than the one they attended or were a practicing member of. Couples who \u201crun away to get married,\u201d may get married in a church of the same denomination miles from home. They may also get married by a preacher of a denomination whose practices are close to their own–close enough that the differences are not considered different. Even couples who don’t leave home to get married may choose an officiant of denomination other than their own. Many times, particularly on the frontier, available clergy may be scarce and a couple may need to choose an officiant outside of their preferred denomination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep in mind that \u201cwrong\u201d church may have been a church attended by a family member encouraged the couple to marry in their church. The researcher may simply be unaware of the connection. In some families, getting married in the \u201cright church\u201d or the \u201cright denomination\u201d matters, in others it does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Don\u2019t assume your immediate family\u2019s practices are what your great-grandparents or other relatives did. Not every family is alike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It\u2019s possible that your relative got married in a church other than the one they attended or were a practicing member of. Couples who \u201crun away to get married,\u201d may get married in a church of the same denomination miles from home. They may also get married by a preacher of a denomination whose practices […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}