so many wives so little time......

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delmarco
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so many wives so little time......

Post by delmarco » Wed May 30, 2007 2:14 am

How can this be? Alexander is indexed with 5 brides in the same year on SP??????

Please let me know your thoughts.

1926 MCMENEMY ALEXANDER FERRI BULTE LOUISE ALPHONSI SERVICE AND WAR RETURNS /MINOR RECORDS 056/AF 0151

5 1926 MCMENEMY ALEXANDER FERRI COMRIE ISABELLA SERVICE AND WAR RETURNS /MINOR RECORDS 056/AF 0151

6 1926 MCMENEMY ALEXANDER FERRI PORTELLI LOUISE ALPHONSI SERVICE AND WAR RETURNS /MINOR RECORDS 056/AF 0151

7 1926 MCMENEMY ALEXANDER FERRI REID JANET DAVIDSON SERVICE AND WAR RETURNS /MINOR RECORDS 056/AF 0151

8 1926 MCMENEMY ALEXANDER FERRI SOPP ETHEL WINIFRED SERVICE AND WAR RETURNS /MINOR RECORDS 056/AF 0151

9 1926 MCMENEMY ALEXANDER FERRI SOPP ETHEL WINIFRED FOREIGN RETURNS /MINOR RECORDS 176/FN 0361
Make it a great day!

RESEARCHING:::MCMENEMY, MITCHELL (LKS), CAMPBELL, FEENEY, MCCALLUM, MCCULLOCH,
ROONEY, and many others......

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Post by AndrewP » Wed May 30, 2007 6:57 am

Hi Delmarco,

The Service Returns are indexed per page rather than per record. You will see that 5 of the index entries lead to the same page.

For your search, for Alexander McMenemy marrying in 1926, it calls up a Service Return page with 4 marriages on it (one of the brides had married before, so is indexed by both her maiden surname and her previously married surname), so the index makes it look as if he married 5 wives. A look at the page will tell you which bride he married. The other brides had a groom each. To click on any one of these will mark all of the entries for that page as paid in your search results.

His marriage was also registered at the consulate where he was stationed, so that produces the other record. One record per page, so only one bride indexed for him. This search result tells you who to expect to find as the right bride on the Service Return.

All the best,

AndrewP