It may be of interest to your readers that the excerpts of Feb. 2 clipping having to do with the Virginia prohibitions to marriages to siblings of deceased spouses was not acted upon till 1848.

Though changes had been suggested in the legislature MANY times over the 50 years, that ban continued from 1792 until 1848. Virginia was the strictest of the Southern colonies in that regard.

Genealogy without documentation is nothing.

Paul Drake JD