--=======31A95CCD======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-B5F5C7E; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This is an updated version of information about Carroll County Marriage Records that I send when I receive a marriage-related inquiry: --------------------- Carroll County Marriage FAQ -------------------------- My online gedcom is devoted to Carroll County, Kentucky families and history. Margaret Samland copied the Carroll County marriage index, 1838 - 1938, shared it with me and I was able to convert it into a gedcom and intergrated it into my genealogy program before I ever had any thought of putting the information online. Thousands of entries in my data consist solely of references to a marriage, unconnected to either parents or children. Because of the same person's name appearing in different sources, it is common for the same person to appear more than once. Grooms who remarried in the county will appear as separate individuals in my data. Brides who remarried usually appear again under the surname of their previous husband. If you go back and search from the website where my gedcom is: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=wmadavis Entries derived from the marriage index will show the book and page number at the bottom of the page. "5-047" would mean Book 5, page 47. "5-047C" would mean it was indexed as a "colored" marriage. If you send them the book and page reference, the Carroll County Clerk promises to send out within three days a copy of the page from the marriage books, some of which were recopied after being damaged in the 1937 Floods ( I believe the damaged originals can be viewed on microfilm at the Carroll County Public Library; the recopied records give references to the original book and page numbers). I don't know if it makes any difference, but you should probably tell them if it was a "colored" marriage; they may not recognize the ending-with-C as meaning a "colored" marriage, because that was my indexing convention, not theirs. There is no guarantee about what information will be there, but typically it may give the wedding date, the ages, residence, where born, occupation, marital status and parents' names. Sometimes there is very little additional information. In some periods extensive family information was recorded. The cost for a photocopy is only $0.25 per page, and marriage book entries are single-page entries. You could send them a check for whichever copy you want, adding the amount of postage. If you send a stamped self-addressed envelope you wouldn't need to add the postage to the check. If you want a copy that's certified, they charge $5.00. The address is: Carroll County Clerk 440 Main Street Carrollton, KY 41008-1099 Telephone: (502) 732-7005 You can also call them and ask them to read the record to you, but sometimes they don't read all the relevant data from the record without a lot of prompting. If you are looking for a marriage in Carroll County between 1838 and 1850, you might find the full date in one of these two online files: For Groom's surnames between A and L: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/carroll/vitals/marr/A-L.txt For Groom's surnames between M and Z: ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/carroll/vitals/marr/M-Z.txt My GEDCOM is posted for sharing and gathering information on any Carroll County, Kentucky family. It doesn't just represent my personal genealogy. Feel free to use the Post-It fuction to add additional notes, queries, comments, and corrections to my on-line gedcom. You can add your name and address and e-mail address as a contact person interested in this entry, if you like. I do try to work additions into the regular gedcom, but I've gotten behind in making these additions. ------------------ end --------------------- --=======31A95CCD=======--