HIP HIP HURRAH!!!! You folks are wonderful!! Phyllis in CA -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Harris <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 9:34 AM Subject: [NCSURRY-L] new NC Marriages Database >I am delighted to announce the brand-new NC Marriages Database for NCGenWeb: > >http://tn-1.rootsweb.com/~marce/ncarolina/index.html > >Marceline Beem did the scripts for this new feature, and it is really neat. >I think you'll like it. > >Sonya Woosley entered the marriage records from Judith Manley's 500k text >file that we've been using for several years, and I added some marriages >from my personal files and from Quaker and Moravian church records. > >Specifically for Stokes, Surry, and Forsyth counties, I entered marriages >that are mentioned in the Records of the Moravians in NC up through about >1800, and am going to continue chipping away at those as time permits. >Since these marriages usually don't appear in public records (i.e. no >marriage bond was filed if banns were published in church), I think this >should be a useful addition to the file. Please help by contributing your >own data, particularly information from family Bibles or other personal >records that would supplement what's available in the public files of bonds >and licenses. > >Altogether we have just about 5000 records now, and I feel sure it's going >to grow rapidly. > >Enjoy! We're still considering this as a beta test version, so please >report any problems either to Marceline Beem ([email protected]) or to me >([email protected]). > > >Elizabeth Harris >[email protected] > >state coordinator for NCGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/ >