> If no one comes through with an online list, there's always your > local public or college library. Marriage customs have been a topic > of scholarly research ever since the establishment of anthropology > as a branch of human knowledge. > > Cynthia Van Ness, MLS -- roots@bfn.org Thank you for the suggestion, but I am looking for something more interactive. Example: When I first started looking online for my "Mary" relatives, I soon learned to look for "Polly". I was able to pass this on to others, and in return I was sent links they had found later on supporting the Mary/Polly naming custom. Neither one of us would have gone there on our own. Those links led to other discoveries we would probably had missed out on. I have been looking for online pages of info regarding marriage customs/rites in IT, OK, TX where there was not a minister or Justice of the Peace, etc. I am hoping to find something that will make my great aunt feel OK about talking about the paperless marriages of a number of family members pre 1925 ish. She refuses to talk about them and it has left huge gaps in the family history. Many genealogy lists have "talked" about naming customs and some marriage customs, I was just hoping there would be a list that spent more time on the subjects of customs, rites of passage and the like. I don't have the time and computer knowledge to start my own list, or I would consider it. Thanks again, Brenda Branstetter bransflakes@earthlink.net