Hi Jerri & List Just a suggestion for those who had family living near the Texas/Ok border, My family from what is now Bryan County at least twice went to Paris TX to married, My Greatgrandfather Sam Bacon a mixblood Chickasaw married his 2nd and 3rd wives one of which was white there. The last had registered as a Mississippi Choctaw before she married. It's worth a try if you haven't found them in the actual Territory. Linda Davis "Jerri (Rogers) Chasteen" wrote: > June asked > "Would you by chance know where these <marriage> records are presently > housed?". > ~~~ > No-- I had heard some from the Muskogee courthouse "disappeared" a few years > ago. I would check with the Oklahoma Historical Society, but I haven't found > them in any one place or publication. I search high and low for Indian > Territory records such as this, and while I don't have time to do lookups in a > specific area, many times I do use them to answer queries on this mail list. > > Some of the marriages have been extracted, compiled and published, such as > those from the Vinita Courthouse and those extracted from the Dawes enrollment > applications. Just about a year ago the earliest records used to prepare the > birth and death certificates of Delaware County were published, which gives the > maiden name of the mother. Early Ottawa County School records have been > published. I have even found some excellent Indian Territory records at the > Clayton Library in Houston Texas, including some pre statehood birth records > for Sequoyah County. With so many computers in use, I think more and more > records of I.T. will be published in the near future. > > None of these are on-line that I know of, in case that is the next question. > > Jerri C.