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The Common Room / Re: How can I search Caribbean records?
« on: Friday 29 September 17 00:26 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: andrewalston on Thursday 28 September 17 19:34 BST (UK)
In the area I have looked at (now the US Virgin Islands), it seems that marriage was an unusual event. It was normal for the census to show a woman as unmarried, and her children with the surname of their father, who may or may not be in the same household.

Although I haven't put anything up in a while, I wrote a series of articles on this aspect of Virgin Islands (Danish West Indies) genealogy on my blog, "200 Years in Paradise"

http://200inparadise.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-have-heard-that-common-law-marriage.html


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