You were very lucky, my grandparents were married in 1891, and their application was not filled out. Oh well, maybe, the clerk was in a hurry on that day in 1891. Joanie Tony & Linda Kmiecik wrote: > > For Joan and others: Yes, there were marriage applications in 1876. I > guess that sentence in my prior e-mail wasn't clear. I have in my hands the > 1876 marriage application for a couple in Livingston Co., IL. As I > remember, I located this when I stopped at the courthouse on my way to a > genealogy seminar near Springfield, IL. What I was seeking were some old > tax books I had seen in a basement room on a prior trip. They were by year > and by township. (As I understand it, the basement is in two sections, and > you cannot go from one side to the other, but must come upstairs and access > the "other" part of the basement from some office on that other side. It > was lunch time, and the young girl at the counter in the County Clerk's > office told me to go on downstairs. I wish I had taken notes of what I saw > at the time, but there were lots of ledger type books on shelving and > several file cabinets absolutely crammed with documents. Somewhere, in one > of these, I found this 1876 marriage application. When I came upstairs with > several items to be copied, an older woman was behind the counter and almost > had a coronary that I had been down there, and unsupervised. I never did > find the tax records, and no one in the collector or assessor's office knew > what I was talking about. > > Linda K. > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!