Richard, Not being a user of IGI records in regard to Montgomery county, Ohio I cannot state what is there or what is not. I much prefer looking at the original record so I can draw my own conclusions. This also gains me access to whom the officiant may have been as well as other facts that the IGI will never cover. It is an index, nothing more! Many, many years ago with the advent of the Internet I was assuaged of many requests for this or that marriage that I could not find in my scanned images. I have had the marriages from 1804 to 1837 of Montgomery county, Ohio in my computer since the late 1990s. Soon I hope to return to them for scanning in higher resolution and in color. I also have the existing marriage affidavits as well although those are not fully cataloged for searching, time is limited and there is too much for one person. Without fail the marriages I was being asked to locate had to do with families that could be documented to have lived in or near Jefferson township. A large portion, but not all, of the marriages were German Baptist Brethren and took place, roughly, from about 1812 to the late 1820s. These researchers even had Bible records to support that the marriage took place on this or that date. I know wish I had kept a record of these marriages. And then one day I was reading Beer's 1882 history of Montgomery county, Ohio for Jefferson township and noticed that there was a German Baptist Brethren minister by the name of Samuel Boltin listed. Asking someone whom I trust, the other respondent to your question, he discounted the statement in the book and also my conclusions that this was a "lost" minister of the church. Another, more senior, Brethren notable, even referred to my conclusions as star dust to put it nicely. I was later proven to be correct when it was discovered that several Brethren periodicals and county histories specifically listed this minister of the church. He had been omitted from the 1921 Southern District of Ohio Brethren church history on purpose (the only conclusion possible) most likely because his roots were English. Another reason was that there was no history of his children having been Brethren. In each and every case his children were Christian church members. To sweeten the pot even more Bro. Boltin had been for a while a resident of my much beloved Morrison's Cove of present day Bedford and Blair counties in Pennsylvania. He was even married to the daughter of the Cove's namesake. So, in closing I can state that if the marriage you are looking for falls between 1812 to the late 1820s in or near Jefferson township, Montgomery county, Ohio and the couple were German Baptist Brethren, or not, then it is Samuel Boltin (Bolton) to whom I would attribute the marriage to. For the other marriages of Montgomery county search at WorldCat.Org with my name as shown below as I have published two books on the marriages as well as other works. The books help support my endeavors and I am not allowed to go into that aspect any further because of Rootsweb rules. The link I sent in my previous e-mail to the lists contains the link to the marriages for 1837 to 1844. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:02:04 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Allen <[email protected]> Subject: [BRE] Why weren't the Montgomery marriages included in the IGI records? To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Wayne (or anyone else knowledgable about the Ohio marriage records): Was Montgomery about the only county in Ohio whose early marriage records were never placed into the IGI?? It seems like I might have seen them on microfilm at the LDS branch, but it would seem strange that the LDS would not transcribe them into the IGI. It would seem that most the official county records they would have incorporated into this, unless they were not given permission in that county. Are there any other Ohio counties excluded from the IGI? Richard