I can't believe it but a database on fiche that I have been using at the local LDS with lots of missing pages is now FREE on ancestry.com. I cannot say enough good things about it. This online database gives you the ability to search for any person listed on the bond. i.e. bondsman or witness. I've already found several new leads and needless to say I am esctatic!!!!!!! If you are researching anyone in NC, you must look at this database. This database is FREE for next ten days at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/4802.htm North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868 Free Until 08/06/2000 Description: When planning to marry, the prospective groom took out a bond from the clerk of the court in the county where the bride had her usual residence as surety that there was no legal obstacle to the proposed marriage. On file in the North Carolina State Archives are 170,000 marriage bonds, covering the years 1741-1868. These records were abstracted by the Works Progress Administration. Most of the bonds contain the following information: groom's name, bride's name, date of bond, bondsmen, witnesses. For those with ancestors in early North Carolina, this will be a helpful database. Extended Description: Additional information may include parents' names, date of the marriage, person performing the ceremony, and other similar data. Source Information: Ancestry.com, comp. North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: State of North Carolina. An Index to Marriage Bonds Filed in the North Carolina State Archives. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Division of Archives and History, 1977. Good Luck!! Jeanne Abrams Polries