Ohio County Marriages, 1789-1997 transcription errors.

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DL Cummings said: Ohio County Marriages, 1789-1997 https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1... and many others have transcription errors. The filing dates are being posted as the marriage date. Above cited record is an example. The error is found by reviewing the attached image.

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Caryn Lowther said: I found this same problem
"Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3... : 15 July 2014), Abstracts: All Counties > Marriage certified abstracts 1949 no 3151-6300 > image 790 of 3160; county courthouses, Ohio.
For many of the records in this collection the filing date is incorrectly given as the marriage date. The marriage is the date solemnized and not the date listed as the marriage date. Probably an indexing error. Need to check the whole collection and correct this.

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Jeff Wiseman said: This is because the instructions that came out with those batches of records for indexing never has the instructions:

- Do NOT index the marriage license date as the date of marriage
- Do NOT index the marriage license filing date as the date of marriage
- Do NOT index the marriage certificate filing date as the date of marriage

And when or if they did, they were never read.

I always have to assume that when certain types of records have been indexed, the dates on them will frequently have been indexed incorrectly

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Tom Huber said: This is true for many marriage records in the United States. I cannot speak to other countries records, but I frequently have to check to make sure the marriage date is actually recorded in the record and if so, that the correct date was indexed, not one of the other dates.

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Jeff Wiseman said: And when it comes to any kind of marriage records in (at least) southern Ohio, if it is the first marriage for the wife and she is shown as being 20-21 years old, there is a VERY good chance that she has lied about her age and birthday :-)

I come across this SO OFTEN! If a girl wanted to get married in Ohio and she was only 18, at one time that was not legal. So they would either lie about their age or drop down across the Ohio River into Kentucky and get married there. If they were only 15, they could go to Kentucky and lie about their age there! In fact, one of my grandmothers was married about 2 weeks after turning 16. However, the marriage record showed her as being 18 (legal in Kentucky at that times).

And to top it off, one of the two witnesses to the wedding was her father!