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Freilich, Kay Haviland, “Verifying an Ancestor’s Words: The Autobiography of Mary (Seeds) Haviland,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Dec. 2009), 245–64.

Goldberg, Suzanne B., “Marriage as Monopoly: History, Tradition, Incrementalism, and the Marriage–Civil Union Distinction,” Connecticut Law Review, 41 (July 2009), 1397–1424.

Grissom, Marieta A., “Untangling Intertwined Branches: Caroline McNeill and Caroline Spencer in Lee County and Marion County, Iowa,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Sept. 2009), 195–210.

Hill, Ronald A., “‘Tout le Monde’: The Marriage Consent for William Moyse and Mary Pearse in Cornwall, England,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Sept. 2009), 211–30.

Meyer, David D., “The Constitutionalism of Family Law,” Family Law Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2008), 529–72.

Moneta, Daniela, “Virginia Pughs and North Carolina Wests: A Genetic Link from Slavery in Kentucky,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Sept. 2009), 179–94.

Oldham, J. Thomas, “Changes in the Economic Consequences of Divorces, 1958–2008,” Family Law Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2008), 419–47.

Peterson, Allen R., “Questionable Information and the English Origin of Thomas Dyson’s Family of Marietta, Georgia,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Dec. 2009), 265–76.

Phipps, Kelly Elizabeth, “Marriage and Redemption: Mormon Polygamy in the Congressional Imagination, 1862–1887,” Virginia Law Review, 95 (April 2009), 435–87.

Pierce, Alycon Trubey, “Isabella (Iliff) Jones Shepherd’s Elusive First Husband of Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and Ohio,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Sept. 2009), 165–78.

Schacter, Jane S., “Courts and the Politics of Backlash: Marriage Equality Litigation, Then and Now,” Southern California Law Review, 82 (Sept. 2009), 1153–1223.

Torpey, Kathryn C., “Using Indirect Evidence to Identify the Mother of Joseph McCloskey (1795–1875) of Clinton County, Pennsylvania,” National Genealogical Society Quarterly, 97 (Dec. 2009), 287–98.

Wardle, Lynn D., “From Slavery to Same-Sex Marriage: Comity versus Public Policy in Inter-jurisdictional Recognition of Controversial Domestic Relations,” Brigham Young University Law Review (no. 6, 2008), 1885–926.

Weiner, Merle H., “Codification, Cooperation, and Concern for Children: The Internationalization of Family Law in the United States over the Last Fifty Years,” Family Law Quarterly, 42 (Fall 2008), 619–58.

 

Jedd, Sarah Meinen, “Reproducing Families: The Rhetoric of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1942–1973” (University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2009). Order No. DA3367794.

O’Neil, Patrick W., “Tying the Knots: The Nationalization of Wedding Rituals in Antebellum America” (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2009). Order No. DA3366397.

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