After my application was filled out, I took it to the branch genealogist, Kathryn Lake Hogan U.E. at our next meeting in November 2010. Over the summer there was a mail slowdown and it took longer than usual to get it processed and I wasn't presented with my certificates until this past Saturday at our November meeting, one year after I started the application process.
Ordinarily it wouldn't have taken so long but I had to send for a marriage license from my first marriage which showed re…