At 09:03 AM 9/14/98 -0400, Diana Davis wrote: > Not to all ILBUREAU-list members---- > >"Any marriage believed to have taken place in Henry Co and not found in this >index should still be researched by the interested party as it may have been >accidentally omitted from the courthouse index." > > I got these books from the Henry Co. Genealogical Soc many years ago. I >have discovered recently that they are on www. > >http://www.wavenet.com/~genbooks/gensocbk.html > >Go to Illinois then Henry Co. to > >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/9101/ > > >Diane this was interesting. I didn't find ANY Binges in Book A, however in >Book B, I found a John BINGE who married Henrietta A. WILLIAMS 9-21-1876. >It was #218 in the index. The note with the book says. "Henry County was >officially created in 1825 with Fulton Co. being the parent county. The >marriage records began in 1837 and are in the sole custody of the Henry >County clerks office. If a copy is desired it may be oftained by writing to >: Henry County Courthouse, Cambridge, IL 61238." Not so strange as you may think...there may be records there that are not in the INDEX...ANNNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD.... The statement is not strictly true. For example, I have a list of about 150 marriages which where the licenses were issued and returned in ROCK ISLAND COUNTY, but the actual marriages took place in Henry, Whiteside, Knox and Mercer counties...those records are kept in Rock Island County where the original license was issued. Don't ask me why people did this unless the groom obtained the license and then was married at the home or church of the bride, which was someplace besides Rock Island County. Susie Martin-Rott Henry Co ILGenWeb Project CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhenry/index.html Hillsborough Co FLGenWeb Project CC http://www.rootsweb.com/~flhillsb/hills.htm Muscatine Co IA Genealogy Home Page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8613 Decatur Co IA Genealogy http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/7094 Rootbound Genealogy Research Services http://www.angelfire.com/il/Rootbound/research.html