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Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 93 Send Message	Dumpling	Report	4 Nov 2008 23:53
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 93 Send Message	I have found my family tree back to a marriage in Devon 1694 on the Gen uk site .There is also a record from1585 with father and grandfather on the Family Search site of the Church of the latter day saints but I cannot find a record to join the two can any one give me some advise please.
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 1,990 Send Message	Kate	Report	5 Nov 2008 00:16
	If you can, I would try to get to the original church records if possible (or see if someone will visit the local records office there) to verify it. Is the marriage you found on Family Search an ""extracted" or "submitted" record and how detailed are the dates? Sometimes if it's submitted you can tell if it's guesswork because the dates are, for instance, down as "about 1585". But if the 1585 record is from the same church as the 1694, the original records could be helpful - they might have a christening for one or both of the couple who married in 1694 somewhere in there which could give you a lead backwards.