Hi Perry The state of IL has put this on the internet.....Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900 you can find it at: http://www.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/archives/marriage.s Happy hunting Tom Webmaster of: The American Family Generations: 1600 to 2000 Currently with more 20 separate databases on line and adding more every week. NOW with over 25,000 hits since Nov. 1997 http://www.geocities.com/heartland/prairie/5121 ----------------------------------------- Researching the following Major Surnames w/variations: Baumann~BRATT~CHUDERSKI~Curvelier~deGroot~delaVigne~duTrieux~DUMBROWSKI~Gane svoort~GARRARD/JARRETT~deGraaf~GROESBECK~Hathaway~Higgins~HUYCK~Hunter~KENT~ LANGDON~LEICHT/LIGHT~LYCON/LYKINS~McLANE~Milles~Montross~Mookers~Noirett~PAS ZKIEWICZ~Peek~PERRIN~Post~ROSE~SAGER/SEGERS~SCHUYLER~Simons~Thysens~vanANTWE RP~vanBRACKELL~vanVALKENBURG~VERPLANCK~Viele~WILTZEE/WILLSEY~ZGL`Obicka~Zich uski. If it has all CAPS it is a very important line to my research. -----Original Message----- From: GreatGrams1@aol.com [mailto:GreatGrams1@aol.com] Sent: May 12, 2001 5:45 PM To: ILCHAMPA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILCHAMPA-L] Quiet Does the Urbana Free Library have a book that would list marriages in 1854? My Great Grandparents were married in Sidney in 1854. (learned from her obit in 1902) I requested a search thru the county but no luck.Trying to get more info on the John Thompson that married Isabelle Tarpenning, ie. middle name, where he was from age at marriage anything to weed out the thousands of John Thompsons. Any help or advice would be appreciated. Perry