Hi, Mary, All of the above. The County Clerk has his original ledgers, of course. Many of his responses to "you" can only be a copy of those ledger pages. I do believe he has copies of some marriage licenses for a few years, but you know the law of averages - those probably won't be for the years you need. There are no parents' names in the ledger books until the end of December 1877, the law changed 1 Jan 1878 to require parents' names, etc. Chances are you won't be allowed to look at the ledger books past 1916, or some other early year, but I think he will furnish a copy of later document, especially if you have some genealogy papers in your hand proving you are researching that name. His fees for copying are at http://www.clintonco.org/clerk_county.htm and are $7.00 for a certified copy. IRAD has copies of those same ledgers from 1825 through 1937 at http://www.ilsos.net/cgi-bin/archives/irad.s and then County: Clinton. There office is run by students from the university and their fees are only for copying costs. There are microfilmed copies of those same ledgers available through any Family History Center throughout the world, you can rent the film for $3.50. There is one copy permanently at the O'Fallon, Illinois center, you may use it free. http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?dis play=localitydetails&subject=198426&subject_disp=Illinois,_Clinton&columns=* ,180,0 If that URL won't come up, then go to http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp and call up: Place Search Place: Illinois the blue "Illinois" gray "View Related Places" Illinois - Clinton call up each category there - marriages are under vital records call up couple more on marriages and then the gray "See Film Notes". Of those microfilms, the 1825 through 1920 marriages are in the State index of marriages. I have another 4 years indexed but unproofed at home that I'd be glad to check for anyone that has a name they think might be in that time frame. If anyone wanted to proof this piece of the index or to expand the earlier index to include all of the ages, parents, places of birth, witnesses, etc, I'd be glad to give them my index data base to use as a starting point. And, what I've never mentioned before, the Clinton County Historical Society has a small ledger book that is the original marriage licenses for about 4 years somewhere in the early 1900's, I think. So if you are ever in there, check that book that sits vertically in the big bookkeeping (?) desk in the second room. This one is not on any of the microfilms. Now! Wasn't that fun! Dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom & Mary Budde" <[email protected]> To: "Dorothy Falk" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: Clinton mrriages > I am a little confused. Does IRAD have the Clinton Co marriages? Does the > Co. Clerk have the marriages certificates with parents etc.? > > Or do I have to go somewhere else to get this information. > > Thank You! > Mary Budde > [email protected] >