If you think you are at a brick wall on a certain ancestor or relative, ask yourself: is it possible this person had a short-term marriage that I don\u2019t know about? That marriage could have ended with the death of a spouse shortly after the marriage or a divorce not long after the wedding ceremony. If the short marriage did not result in offspring and it\u2019s ending was highly dramatic, it\u2019s very possible that no one in the family later mentioned it. And it can make records confusing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Relatives don\u2019t always tell you everything\u2013sometimes because they don\u2019t want you to know it and sometimes because they don\u2019t know it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And…that short marriage confusing your research might be a “first” one. It could be a marriage towards the end of someone’s life that’s messing with you research. That’s especially true for a woman who changed her name upon marriage. Late in life marriages can be short if someone’s “up in years.” It’s also possible that their tolerance for behavior is less than it was in an earlier marriage and the couple is more likely to divorce. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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