Barry, My Aunt-in-law, Armie (Allred) Erwin was one of the numerous Cullman County Allreds (out of Randolph County, N. C.) who go back to a Revolutionary War veteran who settled there. Also, my friend David Crider's family is Cullman County. Did you see the Cullman newspapers online (Ancestry, I guess) full of local names in the 20th century)? Bill Erwin -----Original Message----- From: aljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barry Jernigan Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:18 PM To: aljeffer@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALJEFF] AL Marriage Index Ancestry.com has the Alabama Marriage Index from 1936 to 1969. It's in the "Alabama Marriage Collection" database. Couples aren't listed together but you can search by surname, county and/or date. Click the link to the microfilm image of the marriage index itself. Note the county number (alphabetically in order -- 1 is Autauga County and 67 is Winston County. Jefferson County is 37); the date (sometimes a full date or sometimes just the month and year); volume # and certificate # and then search by the county and date for a match. Sometimes kind of tedious but very often ultimately rewarding. Then, if you wanted, you could order a copy of the marriage license. I thought about the people in that diary from 1930. Perhaps someone might be interested in searching for those names in the marriage index and seeing who they married. Might jog some memories a little more? Just an idea. Also, a little OT -- Ancestry has a similar database for Georgia and Florida marriages. Florida marriages go up to 2001. Those do list the couples if you follow the links to information about the actual certificates and it usually gives women's maiden names as well. I haven't checked out the Georgia marriage database but I will be doing so soon. Also there is a divorce index for Florida (same time frame as the marriage index) and a divorce index for Alabama but I think it's only from 1950 to 1959. I haven't checked it out yet. Anyone know of an online database of marriages for Jefferson County for the early 1900s? Prior to 1936? Several of my great aunts and uncles married there during that time frame as well as my great-grandparents. I'm going to have to make Birmingham my next research trip. I've already got one to Cullman Co under my belt and it was a very good learning trip. One of those trips where once you get there you wish you could just go off by yourself and spend hours and hours just digging through everything rather than sticking to some pre-arranged itinerary ;-) Especially in the court house and also in the library. Barry Jernigan College Grove, Rutherford Co, TN ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I bought several Cullman Co books on my trip there. They have them for sale at the Cullman Library -- including marriage index; cemetery books (all 3 volumes of Cullman Co Churches & Cemeteries); death index. I also ordered the Heritage of Cullman Co book from the Heritage Publishing Co just prior to my trip. It came in very handy as well. The Cullman Co Court House has a lot of old newspapers in their archives. We went searching there as well. Also visited several cemeteries in Cullman, Winston and Morgan co's. I got some of those on film (VHS). But thanks for the heads up about the newspapers at Ancestry. I'll have to check that out sometime in the future. I'm trying to fill in the gaps in the Jernigans right now but my Young ancestry still has a few holes in it as well that need patched ;-). That's the Cullman Co/Free State of Winston side -- the Youngs (Jones Chapel area specifically). Barry Jernigan College Grove, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Erwin" <wrerwin@nc.rr.com> To: <aljeffer@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [ALJEFF] AL Marriage Index > Barry, > > My Aunt-in-law, Armie (Allred) Erwin was one of the numerous Cullman > County > Allreds (out of Randolph County, N. C.) who go back to a Revolutionary > War > veteran who settled there. Also, my friend David Crider's family is > Cullman > County. > > Did you see the Cullman newspapers online (Ancestry, I guess) full of > local > names in the 20th century)? > > Bill Erwin > > -----Original Message----- > From: aljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aljeffer-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Barry Jernigan > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:18 PM > To: aljeffer@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ALJEFF] AL Marriage Index > > Ancestry.com has the Alabama Marriage Index from 1936 to 1969. It's in the > "Alabama Marriage Collection" database. Couples aren't listed together but > you can search by surname, county and/or date. Click the link to the > microfilm image of the marriage index itself. Note the county number > (alphabetically in order -- 1 is Autauga County and 67 is Winston County. > Jefferson County is 37); the date (sometimes a full date or sometimes just > the month and year); volume # and certificate # and then search by the > county and date for a match. Sometimes kind of tedious but very often > ultimately rewarding. Then, if you wanted, you could order a copy of the > marriage license. > > I thought about the people in that diary from 1930. Perhaps someone might > be > interested in searching for those names in the marriage index and seeing > who > they married. Might jog some memories a little more? Just an idea. > > Also, a little OT -- Ancestry has a similar database for Georgia and > Florida > marriages. Florida marriages go up to 2001. Those do list the couples if > you > follow the links to information about the actual certificates and it > usually > gives women's maiden names as well. > > I haven't checked out the Georgia marriage database but I will be doing so > soon. Also there is a divorce index for Florida (same time frame as the > marriage index) and a divorce index for Alabama but I think it's only from > 1950 to 1959. I haven't checked it out yet. > > Anyone know of an online database of marriages for Jefferson County for > the > early 1900s? Prior to 1936? Several of my great aunts and uncles married > there during that time frame as well as my great-grandparents. > > I'm going to have to make Birmingham my next research trip. I've already > got > one to Cullman Co under my belt and it was a very good learning trip. One > of > those trips where once you get there you wish you could just go off by > yourself and spend hours and hours just digging through everything rather > than sticking to some pre-arranged itinerary ;-) Especially in the court > house and also in the library. > > Barry Jernigan > College Grove, Rutherford Co, TN > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALJEFFER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >