u/EfficiencyLast7785

Hi, appreciate any help you can provide! I'm applying looking for my great-grandparents' and 2x great-grandparents' marriage certificates. So far I've contacted probate courts in Ottawa, Wood, Sandusky, and Lucas counties, but nobody can find these records.

Great-grandparents:

George Slovak and Helen Pokorny, married at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Genoa, OH on April 13, 1940. I've called the county probate court and have visited in person. They don't have a record of the marriage. I have this newspaper announcement.

2x great-grandparents:

George Slovak and Eva Migota (originally Jiri Slovak and Eva Migotova). They were born in present-day Czechia. Jiri arrived in the U.S. in 1905. Eva arrived in 1907. She was single when she arrived, based on this record.

George Jr was their oldest son, born on June 26, 1915. His baptism record (attached to Eva's family search profile linked above) from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Genoa, OH names George and Eva, so I assume they had to have married in the States sometime between March 1907 and June 1915.

Thanks to anyone who might have advice for how I can proceed.

Hi, I'm seeking information on my 2x great-grandparents, Peter and Anna Pokorny. I'm trying to find where they were born and where they got married.

Peter was born in approximately 1878. Anna was born approximately 1883. Her maiden name is often written as Wise, but one handwritten record I have recorded it as Lieza.

Peter arrived in the U.S. in 1907 and listed Guchow, Bohemia as is last foreign residence.

https://www.statueofliberty.org/arrival-details/?id=JXKJ-BZG

Anna arrived later, but I don't have her specific details. She had to have arrived by at least 1912-1913. She and Peter had a son who died in Woodville, Ohio in 1914.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8XK-KZT?lang=en&cid=fs\_copy

In 1927-1928, Anna filed for divorce in Ottawa County, Ohio, but the divorce was denied. From the 1930s onward, Anna is listed as married and the head of the household in census records.

Anna died in Toledo, Ohio in November 1968. Nobody in the family knows what happened to Peter after the late 1920s. Some old family stories claim he went to Michigan.

Thank you for your help. I appreciate that this might not be enough information to go on...

Missing marriage records

Bohemian ancestors pre-1918 immigrants