Thanks for all the great information. I truly appreciate your many replies and assistance. I have included some of the replies below for others who may be interested in the replies. ---------------- I am not familiar with the 'quick marriagees' of early times, but during the 1930s and 1940s, it was a common practice to circumvent the three day waiting period for blood tests in Alabama, that couples eloped to Lucedale, Mississippi where marriage chapels and motels were a booming business. > I don't know much about where people from around this area went to get married in a hurry, but I do know that very many people from here went to Meridian, MS to get married because Mississippi did not require a blood test, and they could go to the court house there, get a marriage license, and get married on the spot by the Probate Judge. In looking for records of people who might not have gone this far out of the way to get married, I would check the records in Linden and Camden, but if the couple were married after the blood test law, which I think came in somewhere around WWII (It could have been a little before this time) keep in mind that they would have had to have a blood test done prior to getting married if they got married in Alabama. If they just slipped off from the family and got married, it might be more likely to check the records at Meridian. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.