I’m not much on writing prompts, but since I just located the “missing” marriage information on my last set of great-great-grandparents, I thought I’d look at the locations of where my parents through my great-great-grandparents were married, just to see what patterns and trends there were.
My parents:
- Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois
My grandparents
- Keithsburg, Mercer County, Illinois
- Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois
My great-grandparents
- Breckenridge, Hancock County, Illinois
- Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois
- near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois
- Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois
My great-great-grandparents
- St. John, New Brunswick, Canada
- Walker Township, Hancock County, Illinois
- Tioga, Hancock County, Illinois
- Soap Creek Township, Davis County, Iowa
- near Basco, Hancock County, Illinois
- Golden, Adams County, Illinois
- Prairie Township, Hancock County, Illinois
- Coatsburg, Adams County, Illinois
I’ll stop there–I don’t have all my third great-grandparents marriage records. Interestingly enough, both sets of my grandparents went “away” to get married. Everyone else pretty much got married exactly where they were living.
