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/