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Beaver Island family notices report a birth, engagement, and two marriages, 1984

Also January 1984 Beaver Island birth and marriage notices

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TypeEvent
Dates1983-12-14 – 1983-12-23
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Dates
1983-12-14 – 1983-12-23
Kind
Marriage
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Eras
Modern era
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Beaver Island

Summary

The January 1984 Beaver Beacon published family notices for Patrick Michael Hayes’s birth, Laura Esch’s engagement, and the December marriages of Lynn McDonough and Diane Wojan.

Evidence limits

These are newspaper family notices, not civil birth, engagement, or marriage records.

Sources

  1. Reports Patrick Michael Hayes's December 23 birth, Laura Esch's engagement to Richard Gillespie with a February wedding planned, Lynn McDonough's December 17 marriage to Greg Cary, and Diane Wojan's December 14 marriage to Richard Scripps. These are published family notices, not civil birth, engagement, or marriage records. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1984-01_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held eighteen-page January issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the family notices.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1984-01_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island family notices report a birth, engagement, and two marriages, 1984”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-family-notices-january-1984/, accessed [date], citing Announcements, Beaver Beacon, January 1984. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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