This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CFB.2ACI/316.1 Message Board Post: Hi Sandra, Online at Dorinda Shepley homepage, http://hometown.aol.com/DorindaMD/index.html she has The Democratic Advocate newspaper abstract of the burials at Krider's by the December 1889 and other cemteries in Carroll County. For Marriages, Births and possible deaths not available online, would be in the "MARYLAND GERMAN CHURCH RECORDS", Volume 9, "The Pipe Creek Church, Benjamin's, St. Benjamin's or Krider's Church", Reformed records 1766-1835, and Lutheran Records 1767-1837; Translated and edited by C.T. Zahn and Frederick S. Weiser, published by the Historical Society of Carroll County, copyrighted by Frederick S. Weiser, 1993,124 pages, indexed. You can purchased this book from the Historical Society of Carroll County http://www.carr.org/hscc click on publications. Also at the HSCC, in the research library, there are photocopies of the St. Benjamin's/Krider's church records starting in 1766, in German, to English starting in 1850 to 1947. You could submit a research request and the procedures and charges for research is on their website. I would be happy to do a look up for you in the Volume 9 book. Please send me the surnames with dates of birth, if known. Carroll County was formed in Jan. 1837 out of Baltimore and Frederick Counties. So if you are looking for marriages before 1837, you will need to check into Frederick or Baltimore Counties. There is a Index to Carroll County Marriage Liscenses Applications, 1837-1899, indexed by Grooms and Brides, abstracted by Maria Gilligan for the Carroll County Genealogical Society, copyrighted and available from the CCGS. http//:www.carr.org/ccgs/ccgs.html