Hi, Quite a few great answers were received both to me personally, (the inquirier) and to the list itself. It all stems down to asking for EVERYTHING when ordering marriage records.... Ask for the REGISTER, APPLICATION, RECORD, LICENSE, AND "RETURN OF A MARRIAGE TO COUNTY CLERK".....surely if we did all that, at least one of the documents would have family data on it! Marie in Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: Dale & Naomi Stanek Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 5:13 PM To: ILPEORIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ILPEORIA-L] MARRIAGE DATA Was the answer to this question ever found, and if so, what was it? ----- Original Message ----- From: "ELMER BAYLES" <eebayles@msn.com> To: <ILPEORIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 10:44 AM Subject: [ILPEORIA-L] MARRIAGE DATA > Sometime back on one of the mailing list, someone made a suggestion on ordering your ancestors marriage records. > > It had something to do with not ordering marriage certificates but ordering the APPLICATION FOR A MARRIAGE LICENSE (?) from the county as the application contained more family data. > > Do I understand the above correctly? > And, if so, what is the correct terminology to use when ordering such applications? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated as the marriage certificates I am getting from the counties do not contain any family data at all. > > Thanks, > > Marie in Illinois > > > ==== ILPEORIA Mailing List ==== > Visit the Peoria County ILGenWeb Home Page! > http://www.usgennet.org/~ilpeoria/index.html > > ==== ILPEORIA Mailing List ==== Search this list's archived messages! http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl