Hi all! Remember a few months ago me asking for people to send me their Bradford lines from NC? Well, as I've been working on that database and trying to sort out families, an idea hit me. Why not try to verify the marriages with marriage records at the archives in Raleigh (Where I live)?? So that's what I did. I now have entered marriage record info (county, date, bond # if available, witnesses, bondsman, etc.) into the database so if you have a Bradford ancestor from NC, send me an email and I'll look it up in the database. The only info that is available for every single record is the county where the marriage bond was file or wedding took place. Almost all give a date, this is usually the date of the bond, not necessarily the marriage day itself, althought the marriage was usually pretty close to the bond date. I think there were 2 or 3 without the date, only the county was given. Most give the witness and bondsman. Some give the ministers who preformed the weddings. About the database I have, i don't have all the lines sorted out. what I'm trying to do is find sources for individuals who were submitted to me. Some of these are birth, some death, some are names found in county history books, such as Early Families of Edgecombe County that was compiled in 1920 by the Tarboro genealogy society. With this being my last year of school, I don't know how much time I'll be able to work on this and how long it's going to take me, but any of you are always free to ask me to lookup an NC Bradford or submit info (cite your sources if you have them - it saves me from finding a source). What I hope to do eventually is put that information on the website, but that could be a while before something like that is done, and if you don't want me to do that with info you submitted, that is fine. When you submit something, I make a note in the sources who submitted it so I will take out anything with your name/email in the sources, and also when I get closer to getting the database "done" (is genealogy ever done?!?!? hehe), I'll email everyone who submitted info so they have an opportunity to tell me not to put theirs up. I'm guessing that this won't be close to finished before I graduate in May, so no rush. Erin List manager ===== Erin Bradford eabradfo@yahoo.com List manager http://www.ncalhn.org ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)