Thanks so very much for all your work.. Found several of my husband's family & have not completed looking at your great site! Shirley On Fri, 31 May 2002 10:51:41 -0700 Teri Pettit <pettit@Adobe.COM> writes: > I've just made a substantial update to the marriage record section of > the > Rowan County USGenWeb site. > > http://tpettit.best.vwh.net/rowan/rowan-mg.html > > The week of May 20-26 I went on vacation to Morehead, and spent > Monday > through Friday at the courthouse, transcribing marriage records from > 8 am to > 4 pm (when the courthouse closes), and then heading over to the > library to > photocopy obituaries until the library closed. (Saturday I went to a > Hall > reunion and Sunday to a McBrayer-Pettit reunion.) > > Mainly I concentrated on adding details (ages, birthplaces, parents, > witnesses, etc.) from Books 3 through 7 (which were already online > in names > and dates only form.) Full details have been added for books 3 and 4 > (1897-1903), and for about 1/3 the records in books 5, 6 and 7 > (1904-1912). > Also about 50 additional records were added for books 8 through 13 > (1912-1921). > > When I got back home to California, I reformatted the web pages and > added a > listing by bride. > > So for all of you long-time researchers who've stopped visiting the > Rowan > County marriage pages because you already got all you could from > them, you > might want to take another look. > > I'll be submitting the obituaries I collected to the Rootsweb > message board > as time permits, and will announce the names here as I do so. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >