Marriage Law For Genealogists

Author : Rebecca Probert
Publisher : Takeaway (Publishing)
ISBN 13 : 9780993189623
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage Law for Genealogists: The Definitive Guide ...What Everyone Tracing Their Family History Needs to Know about Where, When, Who and How Their written by Rebecca Probert and published by Takeaway (Publishing). This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we interpret our ancestors' decisions to marry in a particular form or place, or at a particular time? Did their choices make them exceptional or normal for their day? Might their marriages have been bigamous, clandestine, or void? Or might they have conscientiously followed the rules set down by Church and State? Since its publication in 2012, Marriage Law for Genealogists has become the indispensable guide for everyone tracing the marriages of their English and Welsh ancestors between 1600 and the twentieth century. Based upon years of painstaking primary research and studies of thousands of couples, it explains clearly and concisely why, how, when and where people in past centuries married. Family historians just starting out will find advice on where 'missing' marriages are most likely to be found, while those who are already well advanced in tracing their family tree will be able to interpret their discoveries to better understand their ancestors' motivations. Rebecca Probert is Professor of Law at Warwick University and the leading authority on the history of the marriage laws of England and Wales, a subject on which she has written extensively.

Author : Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806315829
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Half of the Family written by Christina K. Schaefer and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1999 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers information on finding female ancestors in each state, highlighting those laws, both federal and state, that indicate when a woman could own real estate in her own name, devise a will, and enter into contracts. In addition, entries contain information on marriage and divorce law, immigration, citizenship, passports, suffrage, and slave manumission. Material is included on African American, Native American, and Asian American women, as well as patterns of European immigration. Period covered is from the 1600s to the outbreak of WWII. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Patricia Law Hatcher
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780916489649
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Producing a Quality Family History written by Patricia Law Hatcher and published by Ancestry Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For anyone looking to create a useful, lasting history of your family: This is a book that should adorn the library or bookshelves of all genealogists! Whether you're an amateur or professional, chances are the ultimate goal of your research is to produce a quality family history. Producing A Quality Family History, by Patricia Law Hatcher, guides you through the steps required to create an attractive-and functional--family history report. Learn how to organize your work, how to write the narrative, choose type faces, grammar styles, and punctuation. You'll also see how to create useful bibliographies and discover ways to incorporate photos and illustrations effectively plus much, much more!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania Marriages Prior to 1790 written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rebecca Probert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993189609
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divorced, Bigamist, Bereaved? the Family Historian's Guide to Marital Breakdown, Separation, Widowhood, and Remarriage: From 1600 to the 1970s written by Rebecca Probert and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of our ancestors were wed only once, and after the death of a spouse did not remarry. Yet every family tree has individuals whose lives did not fit that pattern: a minority of the bereaved chose to take a second or even a third spouse, and with some marriages breaking down and divorce increasingly an option there were always bigamists and divorcees ready to find a new partner. In this follow-up to the bestselling Marriage Law for Genealogists, Rebecca Probert explains divorce, bigamy, bereavement and remarriage from the 1600s through to the late twentieth century. How long did marriages last? Was the loss of a spouse in middle age as common as we might assume? And for those who did lose a spouse, what factors influenced their choice to remarry or remain single? What signs hint that a marriage might have been bigamous, or that a divorce had been hushed up? How were marital breakdown, bigamy, and cohabitation linked at a time when relationships outside marriage were rare and unacceptable? From the evidential requirements of the divorce courts through to the testimonies of convicted bigamists, and from men who married their late wife's sister through to couples who went through more than one wedding ceremony together, this book examines law and social custom from every angle. Rebecca Probert is the leading authority on the history of marriage law and practice in England and Wales. She holds a chair in family law at the University of Warwick and regularly appears on TV and radio.

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Publisher : x
ISBN 13 : 9780915709960
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genealogist's Guide to Minnesota Vital Records: Marriages and divorces written by and published by x. This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Noel C. Stevenson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genealogical Evidence written by Noel C. Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : New York (State)
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806302593
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Marriages Previous to 1784 written by New York (State) and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1968 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work embraces as complete a collection of early New York marriage licenses as could be put together from official sources. With its various supplements, it comprises records of about one-fourth of all marriages that took place in New York prior to 1784, when the practice of issuing marriage licenses fell into disuse. In brief, it contains approximately 25,000 entries arranged alphabetically under the names of both brides and grooms, each giving the date of the license and a reference to the precise location of the original record.

Author : Rebecca Probert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139479768
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Rebecca Probert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 was primarily intended to prevent clergymen operating out of London's Fleet prison from conducting marriages, and that it was successful in so doing. It also refutes the idea that the 1753 Act was harsh or strictly interpreted, illustrating the courts' pragmatic approach. Finally, it establishes that only a few non-Anglicans married according to their own rites before the Act; while afterwards most - save the exempted Quakers and Jews - similarly married in church. In short, eighteenth-century couples complied with whatever the law required for a valid marriage.

Author : Robynne Rogers Healey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089679
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830 written by Robynne Rogers Healey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third installment in the New History of Quakerism series is a comprehensive assessment of transatlantic Quakerism across the long eighteenth century, a period during which Quakers became increasingly sectarian even as they expanded their engagement with politics, trade, industry, and science. The contributors to this volume interrogate and deconstruct this paradox, complicating traditional interpretations of what has been termed “Quietist Quakerism.” Examining the period following the Toleration Act in England of 1689 through the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation in North America, this work situates Quakers in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. Three thematic sections—exploring unique Quaker testimonies and practices; tensions between Quakerism in community and Quakerism in the world; and expressions of Quakerism around the Atlantic world—broaden geographic understandings of the Quaker Atlantic experience to determine how local events shaped expressions of Quakerism. The authors challenge oversimplified interpretations of Quaker practices and reveal a complex Quaker world, one in which prescription and practice were more often negotiated than dictated, even after the mid-eighteenth-century “reformation” and tightening of the Discipline on both sides of the Atlantic. Accessible and well-researched, Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690-1830, provides fresh insights and raises new questions about an understudied period of Quaker history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Richard C. Allen, Erin Bell, Erica Canela, Elizabeth Cazden, Andrew Fincham, Sydney Harker, Rosalind Johnson, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Jon Mitchell, and Geoffrey Plank.