>I received the Vital Records Index of North America from the LDS. It >contains a viewer, one CD of births and six CDs of marriage records. The >dates on these records range from 1631 to 1888 and come from both the US >and Canada. > >I was able to locate both marriages of one of my 3great grandfathers, >Samuel Downing, in Pike County, Ohio, one in 1818 and one in 1837. It gives >the names of the parties, the date, the location [county] and, in some >case, other relatives. In most cases it notes if one party was married >before but I know Samuel married his widowed sister-in-law the second time >and I didn't see that noted. I also note his first wife is listed as >Margaret Mathews. We have Samuel's Bible and her name was Matthews. This >could be a typo or an error in the original record. There is a FHL number >associated with each record. I am guessing that is a microfilm number as >both of those marriages, 20 years apart, were in the same county and on the >same FHL number. > >You can also search and get a list of all records for, say, Pike County, OH. > >These records require a Pentium processor, a minimum of 8 MB RAM, 4X CD >drive and 25 MB hard drive space so they aren't for everyone. But they are >quite reasonable -- under $20. > > >Cheryl Rothwell >clrothwell@mindspring.com >Logan County, ILGenWeb, coordinator >http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan/loindex.htm >Logan County mailing list> LOGAN-L@rootsweb.com >Downing mailing list> DOWNING-L@rootsweb.com >Richard III Society mailing list > > >==== DOWNING Mailing List ==== >Do you know of Downing web pages? Post the URL here. > Cheryl, I have quite a lot of information about the Samuel Downing line and am glad to share. Sherry