Monday, November 12, 2012  The Perfect Wedding  There is no day
so anticipated in the life of a young woman as the day of her
wedding. All hopes and energies are focused on creating the
perfect occasion—that flawless day to be cherished and
remembered forever by the blissful couple. When you are in love,
how could anything go wrong?  I don’t suppose, when one is
contemplating the execution of a wedding, that one would
consider the earliest opportunity for things going wrong to be
the marriage record. After all, the couple said, “I do.” What
more is necessary?  And yet, we sometimes hear stories of
marriage licenses someone failed to return to the proper civil
authorities, or some other paperwork nightmare.  In the grand
scheme of things, I don’t suppose what happened in the case of
Simon Snider and his bride-to-be, Nancy Jackson, is entirely
earth-shattering. Perhaps the newlyweds never even realized what
became of their marriage record.  For us, though—the genealogy
hunters par excellence who document every