{"id":4400,"date":"2016-02-20T08:26:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T14:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4400"},"modified":"2019-04-11T22:27:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T03:27:50","slug":"married-by-a-minister-does-not-guarantee-in-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/20\/married-by-a-minister-does-not-guarantee-in-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Married by a Minister Does Not Guarantee In the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If a marriage record indicates that your relatives were married by a minister, it means they were married by that minister. They may or may not have been married in the church. While it may seem like a minor detail, unless the marriage record specifically states the location, the researcher can be certain of the precise place where the marriage took place. The license or record may only explicitly state the county or town. Don&#8217;t assume more than it says.<\/p>\n<p>And that is true for any record.<a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/near-church.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4401\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4401\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/near-church.jpg\" alt=\"near-church\" width=\"512\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/near-church.jpg 512w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/near-church-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/books-on-my-shelf\/\">Check out the books on Michael&#8217;s genealogy shelf&#8211;only listing books I have actually purchased myself and actually use.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a marriage record indicates that your relatives were married by a minister, it means they were married by that minister. They may or may not have been married in the church. While it may seem like a minor detail, unless the marriage record specifically states the location, the researcher can be certain of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400","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\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}