cripplecreek was I think just showing hoew his own monogamous ancestor had to sign and swear that he was not a polygamist before he could enter the US the same year that the polygamist Romney and his family snuck into the country under the radar and without that same necessary paperwork....
George Romney, Willie Mitty’s dad, was one of those children, and the first generation of Romneys for generations who appears to have had no extra wives like his own dad, grandfather and great grandfather
I just thought it was interesting that such things were even asked back then. My great grandfather was somewhere between 9 and 13 at that time anyway.
We’ve been digging around in the family tree and finding old documents in Michigan and Wisconsin. I discovered that my grandfather began his life as a Catholic but became a Methodist during WWII. Nobody in the family ever talked about it so I assumed he had always been Methodist.
Knowing the LDS as I do, I wouldn’t be surprised if they ‘lied for the Lord’ and signed they didn’t believe in polygamy to get into this country.
FWIW, the LDS still BELIEVE in Polygamy, they just believe they cannot practice it at the moment, but the time will come when it is restored.