Ralph, Joan and Sandra There is a large volume of Houston County marriages in Perry that are unrecorded. A cousin went searching through them and found her great grandparent's marriage. I hope to visit Georgia next year and see if I can get these marriages microfilmed. I also was sure I had seen the name Marcus Perryman or even just Perryman but wasn't able to find him, only found GL Perryman in Houston County c 1905-06. Found Elijah Perryman marrying Eliza Collier in 2 Aug 1887 in Crawford County. I think you need to check Bibb County marriage indexes and possibly land deeds to as there has been a great amount of overlap I checked all of the Houston County books mentioned but also a book called "Letters to Amanda" about a Crawford County CW soldier. Sorry but I didn't have any luck. In the South, there are always going to be births, deaths and marriages that were unrecorded due to fires, wars and floods. Looking for deeds to confirm relationships is good, as well as Bible records. If you have records such as these to share, please consider it for the Houston County Web page. Best regards. Gaila

Gaila, Are these marriages recorded at Ga. Archives? Ralph ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaila & James Merrington" <gaila@merrington.net> To: <GAHOUSTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 5:22 PM Subject: Re: [GAHOUSTO] Fw: migration > Ralph, Joan and Sandra > > There is a large volume of Houston County marriages in Perry that are > unrecorded. A cousin went searching through them and found her great > grandparent's marriage. I hope to visit Georgia next year and see if I can > get these marriages microfilmed. > > I also was sure I had seen the name Marcus Perryman or even just Perryman > but wasn't able to find him, only found GL Perryman in Houston County c > 1905-06. Found Elijah Perryman marrying Eliza Collier in 2 Aug 1887 in > Crawford County. > > I think you need to check Bibb County marriage indexes and possibly land > deeds to as there has been a great amount of overlap > I checked all of the Houston County books mentioned but also a book called > "Letters to Amanda" about a Crawford County CW soldier. Sorry but I didn't > have any luck. > > In the South, there are always going to be births, deaths and marriages that > were unrecorded due to fires, wars and floods. Looking for deeds to confirm > relationships is good, as well as Bible records. If you have records such > as these to share, please consider it for the Houston County Web page. > Best regards. > Gaila > > > > ==== GAHOUSTO Mailing List ==== > Visit our neighbors websites: > Crawford http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacrawf2/ > Peach http://www.rootsweb.com/~gapeach/ > >

Not to my knowledge. They are loose and unindexed. Billy Mills mentioned them to us and so Darien went to search there. If you search the list archives at Rootsweb, you will be able to see the different threads. http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=GAHOUSTO This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Sc.2ADI/1038 Message Board Post: When researching Houston Co., GA marriage records, please keep in mind, that the published marriage records by William R. Henry (via CCGS) is only a portion of the "assumed" actual records at the courthouse. The reality is, most (12,000) of the white marriage records are mixed in with those that are now bound as "Colored Marriages". I didn't know this until I stumbled upon it back in 1996. The only thing that I can figure is that somehow, thousands of the marriage records were filed away "unbound", and were either knocked over or mixed up. The books that are now bound and titled as "Colored Marriages" (prior to 1900) are a nighmare to research. Not only are they not in chronological order, the handwriting is often poor. For about 2 years, back around 1997 to 1999, I attempted to abstract 12,000 of the pre-1900 "Colored Marriages", which were mostly "white marriages". I also attempted for over 5 years, to have the original marriage records microfilmed, to no avail. I contacted the LDS and the GA Archives. I am guessing that funding is the main issue. Back in the 1960's, when the vital records were being microfilmed, these "Colored Marriages" were somehow overlooked and not included. As a result of this, whenever someone is trying to find their (white) Houston Co., GA ancestor's marriage record, their odds are about 1 in 4. For now, the only way to try to do a thorough search for your Houston Co., GA ancestor's marriage record, is to go to the county courthouse in Perry, and plan on spending about a month or more looking through all of the marriage record books that say "Colored Marriages". As of this writing, the task is too much for me to undertake to compile and publish. ______________________________ ------------------------------

I remember the name Marcus Perryman also but can`t think of where, wasn`t there mention of Perryman being principle of Dunbar school that is where my grandmother went to school. Was Marcus in the fifth district ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gaila & James Merrington" <gaila@merrington.net> To: <GAHOUSTO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:22 PM Subject: Re: [GAHOUSTO] Fw: migration > Ralph, Joan and Sandra > > There is a large volume of Houston County marriages in Perry that are > unrecorded. A cousin went searching through them and found her great > grandparent's marriage. I hope to visit Georgia next year and see if I can > get these marriages microfilmed. > > I also was sure I had seen the name Marcus Perryman or even just Perryman > but wasn't able to find him, only found GL Perryman in Houston County c > 1905-06. Found Elijah Perryman marrying Eliza Collier in 2 Aug 1887 in > Crawford County.