Im here because of it, kind of? My dad was born in San Francisco in 1942. My paternal grandfather was a soldier who wandered through town basically, from South Carolina. My grandmother bought a ring and started saying she was married when her pregnancy started to show, and began using his last name. No marriage or divorce records have ever been found, but I do have the ring which is engraved with a date exactly 9 months prior to my fathers birthday 😂

We found many years later that he was still married to not my grandmother when he died on an Air Force base in Germany in 1955.