You can locate Marriage records from 1837-to present at the Bartow County Office of the Probate at The Frank Moore Building on West Cherokee, or you can get the earlier ones on the Bartow County Genealogical Society Web page. http:www://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9465/bartowcoga.html click on marriages. if you find the one you are looking for contact one of the three listed by email and they will be happy to assist you. Thanks and come by the Family Research Library in Cartersville at 425 West Main Street directly behind the Public Library. Jean thomlad wrote: > 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 > > ==== GABARTOW Mailing List ==== > GABARTOW-L Mailing List Archives. Search by by name, etc. > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=gabartow > Bartow/Cass County Web Page: > http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Park/9465/bartowcoga.html