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Question on engagements in Denmark

Janet Despain Carlson
Janet Despain Carlson ✭
December 19, 2019 edited December 21, 2019 in Social Groups
Question on engagements in Denmark

Engagements in Denmark required legal documents. With research, I have found that in order to end an engagement, they had to have it legally broken. I have run into one where the engagement was legally broken. I have the engagement date and the date is was legally ended. How do I handle it? Do I ignore it or treat it like an annulment? But then if I treat it like an annulment, what do you suggest when one of them dies before the marriage.

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  • Tanner Blair Tolman
    Tanner Blair Tolman ✭✭
    December 19, 2019

    I'd put the sources in FamilyTree but I would not link them together as a couple nor would I seal them.

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  • Janet Despain Carlson
    Janet Despain Carlson ✭
    December 19, 2019

    Thanks Tanner

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  • Shari Duce
    Shari Duce ✭✭✭
    December 19, 2019

    @JanetCarlson1 JanetCarlson1​  Just wondering if the couple had a child?

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  • Janet Despain Carlson
    Janet Despain Carlson ✭
    December 21, 2019

    No children. The ones I am seeing is where the man himself is a priest and in order to be assigned to certain parishes, he is required by the Lutheran church to marry either the widow or the daughter of the prior priest. So there are legal documents involved, even more than normally required for regular people getting engaged. Most of the ones I am seeing, just end in death before the actual marriage takes place. But then I ran into one where they didn't die but the engagement was "legally disolved". I have talked to Tanner while I was a CSM there but I knew about the death ones but not one that some court disolved.

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