In a message dated 11/12/2000 12:17:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: << That marriage index for Illinois is free at all times at this URL: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/marriage.html I could not find any Mercer County marriages on the ancestry.com site. I just checked to see if they were identical. The formats are different and if you can check both Ancestry.com and the Illinois State site. Ruth >> Thanks, Ruth, I do remember now about that list! But this is odd, although the list you refer to has more names in it, I found some of my family surnames in the Ancestry.com list that are from Henry county that are not in that state website! DeeDee