Thanks, Shirley, for explaining this. The URL for the IL Marriage Database is: http://www2.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/marriage Remember the "status page" isn't up-to-date, so search for your surname, it just might be added. How do we know? Shirley is one of the volunteers who enters these marriages into the database for IL State Archives. She didn't tell you that <g> She is to be commended for all the time she contributes to this project in addition to all she contributes for the MAGA page and surrounding GW Counties. MAGA page at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html Mary Ann At 12:38 PM 07/03/2000 -0500, you wrote: >The Illinois State Archives has a network of volunteers entering marriage >records into the Marriage Record Data Base. They upload new entries >around the first of each month. They completed the upload for July early >today. Don't forget to go back and search for that Illinois marriage you >haven't been able to find - you should search at least once a month >several days after the first of the month. The "status" page is not >current - in fact, I think it is at least 2 or 3 months behind so counties >which are shown as not complete may now be finished and I know that >several counties which are shown as having no records in the data base do, >in fact, have many records online. > > >==== ILMAGA Mailing List ==== >Menard County 1850 Census is now online!! Also, Marriages 1901-1932, several >Cemeteries inscriptions online, 1870-80 Mortality Schedules, 1917 Farmers >Directory. All on the MAGA site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html -------------------------------------------------------- Shirley Aleguas & Mary Ann Kaylor Morgan Area Genealogical Association & Waverly GHS http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilmaga/index.html Dedicated to Free Online Resources for Central IL MAGA Mailing List: [email protected] My Family Genealogy http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~makaylor/index.html