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From: "Pauline" <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Marriage registry/Death of a contact
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:36:20 -0400
References: <200703191419.l2JEJE8s028113@franklin.ghg.net>


Karen,
I have two old city directories , one from 1933 and one from
1895-1896 and their about eleven Steppe families in them , two in the oldest
one and nine in the newer one..............If you want them I will copy and
send them to you, I will try to do it this afternoon, if not in the next
couple of days....................Pauline ( Allegany County, Cumberland,
Md. directories )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karen Hangsleben" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:19 AM
Subject: [MDALLEGA] Marriage registry/Death of a contact


> Thank you to all who commented about the marriage records held by the
> clerk's office. I would like to look for church records as it seems that
> would give me the most information. My question is one I use to have the
> answer for and now can't find. Years ago I was told that there was a
> church
> in proximity to the courthouse/clerk's office and many walked there to be
> married since there wasn't a waiting period. What church was this? The
> marriage record I received recently had the parties married in a Lutheran
> church - St. Paul by a Rev. Yost. I'd thought the couple Methodist even
> though the wife's parents converted to Roman Cath. sometime before they
> died. Getting married in a Lutheran church might therefore have been a
> matter of convenience. The groom was living in Pittsburgh, PA at the time
> of
> their marriage - but, he was born in MD.
>
>
>
> Now, the sad news. Several kind people took an interest in my STEPPE
> search
> and tried helping me in the past week. I came so very close to finding a
> gentleman by this name that might have helped me. Unfortunately, he died
> earlier this month. To come this close makes me heartsick. Take it from
> me;
> if you have waited to write a letter, make a phone call or to delve into
> another branch of your family history don't put it off telling yourself
> you'll write etc. later. Later might never come!
>
>
>
> Sadly, Karen Nelson Hangsleben, TX
>
>
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