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This is an old marriage certificate from my husband's paternal side of the family. It dates back to 1884.



Both of us have been doing some geneology research. A good free web site is www.familysearch.org My most successful tracking is from my mom's maternal side of the family. I began by tracking back from my great grandma Ida born in 1901, who was the 10th of 16 children. Her mother married at age 16 and had her first child at age 17 and her last child at age 44. My great grandma was born in Joseph, Sevier, Utah but her parents were both born in England. It appears both her mother Sarah Briggs born in 1868 in Accrington, Lancaster, England and her father William Roberts born in 1863 in Dorzington, Worstershire. England traveled over to the United States with their parents somewhere between the years of 1868 and 1883. It is fascinating to read through the list of names that makes up my ancestors and travel back through time. The furthest back I got was to a relative born about 1551 in Bolton-By Bollan, Yorks, England. Some of the family names as I travel back were Roberts, Ross, Briggs, Fielding, Howarth, Parkinson, Holden, Page, Quiney, Tolly, Dugdale, Lee, Dorrell, Wilson, Willson, Atkinson, Read, Battersby, Battersbie, Peele, Agnes, Hirde, and Baxter.