Hi Al You have to remember there is more than one female with that entry. There can be 2 or 4 people per that volume & page number. Jennette Gest nee Byrne QLD AUS [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Al Valentine" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:57 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN-CITY] Marriage Mystery > Lots of traffic on this marriage question. Here are I hope some helpful > hints. If you have access to the LDS marriage index and only know one of > the > names of the couple, and have a year, then you can search by surname and > find the party you are looking for. The problem arises when both names are > common like a John Murphy, for which there could be multiple entries. But > if > you know the registration district or recognize the geographic location > and > can place it in the right county, you can narrow the odds. Ideally, you > can > find the right one, then you have the YEAR, QUARTER VOLUME & PAGE. That > should be sufficient for them to look it up and give you a copy of the > marriage certificate. If you are a glutton for punishment, you can find > the > other name yourself in the index. What you have to do is to look through > the > entire quarter and find the identical entry for Volume and Page. An > onerous > task indeed that should not be necessary. The identity of the spouse is > indeed useful in finding the right one, especially when there are many > entries for the other party. > Al Valentine > Canada