My friends - I hope that all went well with everyone over the weekend holiday and that you had no Y2K problems. I had one small one with an old program that I have had for about 8 years, but I tinkered with it and managed to get it up to speed, so all was well on this end. Today, as we resume data posts in the new year, I am going to return to our review of the Hickman County vital statistics marriage records in the period 1852-1861. We began our look at these VS records last week. These are arranged *generally* (but not always) by alphabetical order of the last name, so the marriage for any couple could have occurred anywhere in the 1852-1861 time frame. Please bear in mind that these early vital statistics records are woefully incomplete and inaccurate. Only about 40%-50% of the births, marriages and deaths which occurred in these counties ever found their way into the actual VS records. Beyond that, the information contained in these records should always be held as suspect until another, more reliable source can be found to either validate, or refute, the information. In some cases, such as Graves County, we may have no other records, due to courthouse fires. But it is still worthwhile to remember the caveats about the reliability of VS records in this early time. Subscribers to the lists which I host who see a marriage in which they have an interest, and would like to have the full dataset for that marriage(which usually - but not always - includes the age of groom and bride, the state of birth of each party, and the date of marriage)can obtain it by letting me know the couple for which the dataset is requested, and I will get that information out to them. As always, your help in not resending this entire message back to me with your request is greatly appreciated. -B +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hickman County - Vital Statistics - 1852-1861 - Marriages - Part 2 Gillsem, Dalbert Bassett, Lisa Hales, James O. Baldwin, Lucy J. Hoskins, D.C. Batts, Mary E. Jackson, Joseph Adams, Mary E. Jackson, C.W. Altwood, Francis Kirby, Thomas W. Bennett, Sarah E. Jackson, John Barker, Mahulda E. Trigg, James Beard, Elizabeth Vaughn, William W. Allison, Harriet C.W. Walker, George W. Allen, Mahala A. Wress, Eugene D. Bailey, Kate B. Lambkin, D.S. Atwood, Louisa Lankford, Daniel Altwood, Emily Mason, Francis M. Anderson, Martha J. O'Bryant, Silas Beansell, Elizabeth Porter, Thomas Atwood, Matilda Porter, W.B. Atwood, Mary H. Ringo, Thomas N. Amos, Martha Roberts, D.O. Bard, Mary A. Rossen, J.H. Alexander, Sophronia Shelton, Joseph Allison, Sarah Melvina Stacy, Henderson Bailey, Mary Tarpley, Henry Bennett, Elvira A. Tarver, Joseph Adams, Martha A. ~to be continued~ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++