Barry, Yes I believe that Chilton Co, Ala does maintain copies of marriage applications as far back as 1870. I recently looked up the application for marriage between my great-grandparents in 1898. The application did have some info on it that I didn't know. Marriage was between Nelson Edmon Atcheson & Minnie Bell Garner. Another Chilton Co native, Helen Atchison Love, Wilmington, NC At 03:00 PM 8/14/01 -0600, you wrote: >ALCHILTO-D Digest Volume 01 : Issue 29 > >Today's Topics: > #1 Marriage Applications ["Barry Fox" <bfox@charter.net>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from ALCHILTO-D, send a message to > > ALCHILTO-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:40:51 -0400 >From: "Barry Fox" <bfox@charter.net> >To: ALCHILTO-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <003e01c1246a$88509400$923bd818@oemcomputer> >Subject: Marriage Applications >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > >I have a copy of the marriage license of my g grandparents, dated Oct 25, 1879, from Chilton County. As you can imagine, it doesn't really tell a lot. I just finished reading a magazine article that mentioned marriage applications, that usually provide more information. Does anyone know if marriage applications exist for Chilton County that far back? It could break through a brick wall. > >Thanks for helping. > >Barry Fox >Greenville, SC >