Catholic Marriage Notations at FindMyPast

FindMyPast is slowly but surely adding scanned images of the actual sacramental registers to their Catholic Archives collection. Recently I was able to view the baptismal entries for several cousins and uncles at both Holy Cross and Holy Rosary. It is crucial to always view as close to an original source as a researcher can.

The registers vary in legibility and organization from period to period. Compliance with canon law was not complete which is rather bothersome. There are several examples where children that later married in a Catholic ceremony after 19 Apr 1908 did not have the appropriate notations next to their baptismal entry. 

This notation is an excellent way to track a potentially missing relative through the years. I did find a woman who was baptized in 1874 marrying a second time in 1945. This marriage notation helped to discover her last married name and a possible death certificate. Her second husband was recorded in the register as Cornelius Hayes. The civil marriage index listed him as C. Griffin Hayes. They applied for their license on 20 Aug 1945 and wed 29 Aug that same year.