Another very good place for research in Calhoun Cty, is the Probate Office - on Noble Avenue which is off of Quintard Avenue (main street running through Anniston.) This is where you will find actual marriage records and land records. You can make copies. These records are in huge books on the main floor.There is a room upstairs that they won't tell you about - it has lots of old newspapers, probate records, and many land records and mortgage records where someone mortgaged horses, buggies and just about anything in order to get seed and other supplies for their crops. Much of this is not indexed - the room is not heated or airconditioned, it is very dusty and you will have to climb and dig for some of this - but it is worth it. Most of the newspapers are very old, yellow and crumbling - and the only way to do this is to go page by page to locate a familiar name. I found many items on my ancestors in the early 1920's - deaths, information about someone visiting a family in the community, other interesting items on family members. The probate records are not indexed but are in good shape - you just have to look at them to determine if any of your names are there. I solved a major puzzle with a probate record for an adoption found there back in 1877. I have never found anyone there to be very helpful - but if you just dig you may have wonderful results. The marriage records are indexed in humungous red books. Also, don't pass up the Cleburne Cty, Probate Office - unless you are 100% positive no one you are researching lived in Cleburne Cty. I have found a lot of overlapping in records before 1900, ex. a death recorded in both Cleburne and Calhoun Cty on two different days for the same person. They have marriage records, land records and probate records there also. It is located in Heflin in Cleburne Cty. Hours for Probate Offices are 8:00 - 5:00 Mon-Fri. Depending on what you are seeking several days could be spent in these offices looking over all the records available. I have found the people in Heflin very helpful but the room for research is very tiny. Incidently, if you will write or call the Anniston Chamber of Commerce they will send you a very easy to follow map of Quintard and roads running from it - and other information. I have made five trips to Calhoun and Cleburne Cty in the past three years (from TX) and learn more on every visit.