Jim That is very true, the 8,200 that I just added for Boston, MA are the ones that are in the City Clerks books with no other place listed. No place listed does not aleays mean performed in Boston, but with what I am workin on I would say that at least 99% were in Boston. I am about 1/4 through the next part, which has people from Boston who were married in other towns. This has same marriages from all over the satae. Most are in the eastern part of the state, but they go as far west as Stockbridge. From the two books there probably are about 2,000 marrages performed in other towns, which will make a large file. Almost all of these have the place of residence for both people as well as who performed the marrage and the town. It would be good it all the marriages listed where they were performed, but we can not post things that are not in the records and would only be guesses. At least these have the neme of the Minister or J.P. who performed them so people can check to see where he lived in that time. In the book that I am using now there are probably amother 3,000 listed by the church that they got married in. These are the only ones that we can say for sure were performed in Boston, but people can not get a certificate for these as they were not recorded with the City Clerk. These Churched had a lot more marrages, but most in the City records so not listed a 2nd time in this part. Like anything that people find on the net they should use it as a starting point, and check the records them selfs when found. This would go for all web sites, not just mine. Yes, even comercial sites as they just take things out of published books like the rest of us puttig info on the net. With these being published by the Boston Records Commisionerrs I hope that they checked all for places first. Below is what the report of out of town marriages will look like when it is finished. Of course the one on at the web site will have a lot more people and lines not wrapped by the email program. Pleease notice that each line has at the end where the marrage was performed. Baker Abigail of Dedham and Josiah Bumstead of Boston Aug. 13, 1794 by Rev. Jason Haven at Dedham Anne of Chsn. and Benjamin Babbidge of Boston June 6, 1745 by Rev. Mr. Hull Abbot at Charlestown mary of Eastham and John Cookson of Boston Dec. 31, 1741 by Rev. Isaiah Lewis at Eastham Mary of Boston and Ebenezer Tarbox Oct. 18, 1782 by Rev. Mr. Samuel Chandler at Gloucester Simeon of Boston and Betty Wait of Danvers Apr. 17, 1783 by Rev. Benja. Wadsworth at Danvers Balch Ann of Chsn. and Shipie Townsend of Boston Aug. 18, 1748 by Rev. Mr. Hull Abbot at Charlestown Ball John of Boston and Sarah Brooks of Concord Nov. 20, 1746 by Rev. D. Bliss at Concord Mary of Chsn. and Benja. Willis of Boston Oct. 3, 1765 by Rev. Mr. Thos. Prentice at Charlestown Nahum of Lancaster and Mary Thomas of Boston Dec. 1, 1796 by James Sullivan J.P. at Lancaster Sarah of Concord and Thomas Marston of Boston Aug. 4, 1761 by Rev. D. Bliss at Concord Ballard Jane of Lynn and Joseph Hunting of Boston Dec. 15, 1740 at Lynn Joseph of Boston and Mary Reed of Chsn. Nov. 27, 1711 by Rev. Simon Bradstreet at Charlestown Mehetable of Framingham and William King Hagger of Boston Oct. 6, 1796 by Rev. D. Kellogg at Framingham Rebecca of Lynn and Thomas Berry of Boston Jan. 27, 1729/30 at Lynn Samuel of Boston and Fear Sears of Chatham Nov. 3, 1763 by Rev. Stephen Emery at Chatham Ray http://www.rays-place.com CARADOC28@aol.com wrote: >just because a marriage is in a brown book doesn't mean it happened in that >town. I hope you account for that. the brown books vital records are an >accumulation of facts about people in that town. Like say James Denning was born 2 >Jul 1822. this could be from a govt form or tax record book. >It doesn't mean he was born at that date in that town. > >Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- >carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug >h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M >a.-sprague- and ever growing list >Jim Denning > > >==== BOSTON Mailing List ==== >Boston National Historic Park: >http://www.nps.gov/bost/home.htm > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > > >