Dear Listers, I ordered Bay County marriage records, having found my search focus, William H. Bestor, on the IGI as having married Anna Fitz Henry on 18 June 1880. The film came yesterday, and the marriage is clearly 18 June 1879. There's an explanation on the USGEBWebsite for Bay County, about how returns were not always timely and the marriages were entered not exactly chronologically. Notwithstanding the 1879-1880 discrepancy between the IGI and another index I found online (linked to the Bay County USGENWebsite), I would like to know if there are marriage license *applications* available for Bay County. The information in the ledger where the return is entered is sketchy to say the least. I need to know William H. Bestor's parents' names and birthplaces. There isn't really enough information that I'm certain he's the same William H. Bestor I'm looking for, and it doesn't say whether this was his first marriage, etc. His occupation is stated "machinist" on the FitzHenry marriage. In 1870 he was a boilermaker, and a William Bestor, boilermaker, is found in a ca1890 Bay City city directory. If he is my focus William H. Bestor, his first wife was Barbara Niggli, whom he married in Lake County, Ohio in 1865 (she is Barbara Nichols on the IGI). Need to know what happened to Barbara and when. Lila Garner