You might try the IGI online at for marriages in St. Louis, St. Louis County, Missouri. I know many of my Macoupin County people went there to be married and have found quite a few of mine there. The Extracted Marriage Records are a part of the IGI. While I generally do not accept the IGI records as being high on the reliable source list (because many are hear-say), I do accept the Extracted Records as reliable. They are found amongst the "regular" IGI. The URL for the IGI is through _www.familysearch.org_ (http://www.familysearch.org) . Generally the extracted record gives the Microfilm number from which the original record was extracted. By copying the Microfilm number also, you can obtain the original record in that manner. There is a program currently in progress where they are extracting records and the extractions will become more numerous and I assume will also be put into the IGI files. Linda R. F. Arnold Menifee, California Messages: Extracted marriage record for locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the marriage date. <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Information regarding St Louis County and St Louis City in Missouri - St Louis City is not part of St Louis County. Throughout the City's history it has been an independent city, then part of the county, then an independent city, then part of the county and finally for decades has been an independent city again. The City does not report to the County government for any purposes. It does however work with the County when an issue will benefit the region. The City for its entire history has maintained its own marriage records. I was told at one time that even when it was part of the County, it did not have the marriage records filed with the County's office (Recorder of Deeds). So if you have someone in your family that was born, died or got married in the City, you will have to contact the City office which maintains those records. Someone who was born, died or got married in the County will have their records in Clayton in the appropriate office. The City also has a different set of charges for their records. Debbi ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html