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Ancestry/Genealogy

OnDoutside

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3. I know this an old thread but my understanding is that

Reply to seaglass (Original post)

Mon May 29, 2017, 04:39 PM

May 2017

when a person applies to the priest to be married in the Catholic church, you must supply your baptism certificate. The priest will then contact the church where the person was baptized to check for a record of a previous marriage...guess it's a way of guarding against bigamy.

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Your thoughts on a record I found on rootsireland, curious... [View all] seaglass May 2014 OP

My Catholic Belgian and Dutch ggrandparents had the same information added to church records. kickysnana May 2014 #1

haha thanks for that. :-) - wish there were more records like that. n/t seaglass May 2014 #2

I know this an old thread but my understanding is that OnDoutside May 2017 #3