Checking the Date of a 1916 Marriage Leads to a Mild Discovery
On 7 March 2016 my great-grandparents would have been married 100 years. That’s not how Ancestry.com has transcribed their marriage date from the records of Immanuel Lutheran Church near Basco in Hancock County, Illinois. The database indicated their marriage date was 7 May 1916. That’s not the correct date and that’s not the date given in […]
