YOU WROTE: >Does anyone know if there has access to marriage >records for the years 1850-1855? >Sandra (Smalley) Holik The other day I was just "fooling around" in the LDS website, after being tipped off by another researcher about a county in AR. that had all it's marriage records listed by batch #'s in the LDS-site. He discovered they were listed by groups of years- in sequential batch numbers. So, I decided to "play around" and see what I could come up with in the LDS-site, with regard to Bartow County, GA. It appears there are some compiled marriage records for a period following the Civil War. The earliest record I saw was 1869 thru 1880 but then again, I did not "test" the limits. I also did not "test" changing the last # of the batch # to see if that would bring up a different group of years. Perhaps that is something one of you brave subscribers may want to par-take in. It seems this can be done on any county who's marriage records are a matter of public record... and that the LDS has been given the records to do so. The greatest challenge is to locate any marriage record from a county that you may have an interest in... through the regular Ancestral Search- and try to locate the "M" in the batch #... I suspect the "M" indicates that the record was compiled from the county marriage records. That is what I did to locate marriage records for "Bartow".. I just picked a very common Georgia surname, and part of the way down the page I saw a marriage listing for an individual that took place in Bartow, when going into the "personal" page... I found "M712062"... afterwards, I used that # as a reference batch number, to check all of my "Bartow" surnames...and I scored ! All the marriage records for Bartow that I checked, had the same batch number. It really sounds more confusing than it is... give it a try. Goodluck. For Bartow County, GA. : Go to http://www.familysearch.org/Search/searchigi.asp - in the "Batch Number" box, enter M712062 . Select "North America" in the "Region" pull-down box, and key in the surname in the dark "Last Name" box. Don't worry about the other boxes. linda Madden Thompson "Volunteer of Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness" http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnraogk/index.htm