I noted with interest the posting from Karen in BC Canada regarding marriage applications she requested but did not receive. I am looking at an 1876 marriage application, and believe I also have one from 1880. As best I can remember, these applications ARE in the basement under the County Clerk's office. After finding a long sought marriage in the Secretary of State's listings which finally contain some Livingston Co. marriages, in February I requested that marriage license and application and did not receive the application. I wrote a second time and received this response: "As I stated before! There IS NO APPLICATION with this marriage record." This wording is not clear. Does this person mean the application is not WITH the license, or that the application is not in their files at all? I believe it is the former, and this person does not want to go down to the basement to get it. That may even be the County Clerk's policy. I don't know if the upcoming election ! April 3 includes the office of County Clerk, Livingston Co., but we can hope. After years of dealing with an unfriendly County Clerk's office here in Macoupin Co., IL, we not only have wonderful cooperation in getting record copies, but the County just bought the old library in the county seat and we are in the process of moving records from the courthouse dome and basement to the library, where we will ready them for filming. Linda K.