{"id":4743,"date":"2016-04-29T08:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2016-04-27T23:33:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T04:33:34","slug":"was-the-license-returned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/29\/was-the-license-returned-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Was the License Returned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>If you&#8217;ve located an entry in local marriage records that a license was issued for your ancestor, have you determined if the license was returned? The issuance of a license means only that a license was issued and that a couple was intending to get married.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Usually cancelled licenses are returned and &#8220;cancelled&#8221; is written somewhere on or near the entry in the record indicating the license was issued. But not always. Sometimes they are just not returned.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sometimes licenses that are used are not returned by the officiant, even if the marriage took place.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p><em>Genealogy Tip of the Day<\/em> is sponsored by <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;kbid=9378&amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GenealogyBank<\/a><\/em>\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/?utm_source=9378&amp;amp;utm_medium=gbhp_text&amp;amp;utm_campaign=affil&amp;amp;kbid=9378&amp;amp;m=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">search for your ancestors.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve located an entry in local marriage records that a license was issued for your ancestor, have you determined if the license was returned? The issuance of a license means only that a license was issued and that a couple was intending to get married. Usually cancelled licenses are returned and &#8220;cancelled&#8221; is written [&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-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}