Friends on the Beara list, I wanted to mention that for those of you who are wanting marriage certificates for relatives who were married in Montana, that the Mormon church now has those records online for free. If you go to the Family Search website (www.familysearch.org) and instead of entering a name in the top part of the page, instead go to the bottom of the page to the collections and select United States and then Montana. It will list all the Montana collections and there are two for the marriage records. Pick the one with images and then you can do a surname search. It solves the problem of which county did they get married in as it covers all counties. In Butte, until about 1894, many people went to Helena to get married. It was an exhausting task as I was surprised at how many records I had to collect for my batch of Harringtons and Murphys, but found them all. And am trying to break through the brick wall of my mystery Murphy man in Butte. The marriage records are particularly helpful as they list the parent's names and can help to piece the whole picture together. Happy hunting! Theresa --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using SnowCrest WebMail. http://www.snowcrest.net

Kersten, who is your mysterious MURPHY? My dad was a MURPHY. Bette -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [BEARA] (no subject) Friends on the Beara list, I wanted to mention that for those of you who are wanting marriage certificates for relatives who were married in Montana, that the Mormon church now has those records online for free. If you go to the Family Search website (www.familysearch.org) and instead of entering a name in the top part of the page, instead go to the bottom of the page to the collections and select United States and then Montana. It will list all the Montana collections and there are two for the marriage records. Pick the one with images and then you can do a surname search. It solves the problem of which county did they get married in as it covers all counties. In Butte, until about 1894, many people went to Helena to get married. It was an exhausting task as I was surprised at how many records I had to collect for my batch of Harringtons and Murphys, but found them all. And am trying to break through the brick wall of my mystery Murphy man in Butte. The marriage records are particularly helpful as they list the parent's names and can help to piece the whole picture together. Happy hunting! Theresa --------------------------------------------- This message was sent using SnowCrest WebMail. http://www.snowcrest.net ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message