I wanted to point out to everyone using the International marriage records from ancestry that these dates were just extracted from family group sheets and pedigrees in many cases so please BEWARE. Here is the info on this source. Source Information Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, queries.

Marilyn, I agree with the "warning". The Yates Publishing Company is notorious for merely extracting data, mainly from the records of the LDS Church, without ANY verification of validity, and putting it on Ancestry.com as "verified fact". In case anyone ever wondered why, in a search at Ancestry, there were multiple entries for, say a marriage, with different information, the answer is that most of the "Marriage Records" at Ancestry come from Yates Publishing, and they have extracted multiple entries for the same event. The ONLY time you can be assured you are seeing valid marriage data is if Ancestry has a photocopy of the actual marriage records which you can view. Sarge At 9/6/2011 06:35 PM Tuesday, gneolog@aol.com wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >I wanted to point out to everyone using the International marriage records from ancestry that these dates were just extracted from family group sheets and pedigrees in many cases so please BEWARE. > >Here is the info on this source. > >Source Information > Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, queries. **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html

However, There was an actual extraction process taking place for quite sometime. A person would extract all the marriage records for a period of time for a particular parish. Another would do the same for births. Sometimes it was just females. Other times just males. One way to determine if such is true, search by the parish. These are quite reliable, but one should always get the microfilm and verify the data. I found spouses and other children that way. Occasionally, I would find a bit of difference. but usually right on the button or, even I had done an incorrect interpretation of the data. But that was due to the fact I had studied the family in depth. Cary ----- Original Message ----- From: <gneolog@aol.com> To: <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com>; <germans-va@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 5:35 PM Subject: [GERMANNA] US and International Marriage records > I wanted to point out to everyone using the International marriage records from ancestry that these dates were just extracted from family group sheets and pedigrees in many cases so please BEWARE. > > Here is the info on this source. > > > > Source Information > Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data: This unique collection of records was extracted from a variety of sources including family group sheets and electronic databases. Originally, the information was derived from an array of materials including pedigree charts, family history articles, queries. > > > > > > > > > TN Germanna Reunion - Sept. 9-11 http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/easttennesseereunion2011.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message