Somedays I do kick myself for not looking or trying things out sooner than later. Then again, maybe the present rather than the past was the right time for a discovery. A while back, I had someone suggest that I try the LDS Library for my great grandparents marriage certificate. They have all marriages for New York City on file and charge about $4 for them.
Well before I decided to make the trek to the local LDS library near my place, I decided to use the online search at http://www.familysearch.org/. I decided to keep it simple and typed in Mary Romaine. A lot of census information popped up. I have access to all of the census at Ancestry.com and find it hard to weed through. I narrowed my search to marriages for New York.
The following information popped up right in front of me......It's what I have been looking for, waiting for, and in search of all of these months.
Mary Romaine
New York Marriages, 1686-1980
parents: Joseph Romaine, Frances Lakervine
spouse: Francis Mcguire
marriage: 04 Sep 1903 — Manhattan, New York, New York
record title: New York Marriages, 1686-1980
groom's name: Francis Mcguire
bride's name: Mary Romaine
marriage date: 04 Sep 1903
marriage place: Manhattan, New York, New York
groom's father's name: Charles Mcguire
groom's mother's name: Sarah Mcgrath
bride's father's name: Joseph Romaine
bride's mother's name: Frances Lakervine
indexing project (batch) number: M00391-5
system origin: New_York-ODM
source film number: 1570985
What a find! This is the information for my great grandparents Mary E. Romaine and Francis McGuire. They were, in fact, married on September 4, 1903. And thanks to my Granddad - Francis Robert McGuire - for telling me in 1990 that his grandmother's maiden name was McGrath. There she is!
I have to say this is worth its weight in gold and it was free.......Some things in life are free....amazing!
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