Joanne, The Archives does have copies of the marriage bonds & licenses for all of the years prior to 1930, maybe afterward, too. I think what is confusing everyone is the differences between the Bonds and the licenses. As Carla mentioned, Bonds were required up until about 1868, and afterwards, they only issued licenses, no bonds. The bonds are indexed in many places online including Ancestry.com, and most of the copies are available at the State Archives, some of those early bonds also include copies of any licenses that may have been issued, too. But after 1868, you will only find licenses, and they are indexed at the Archives. In addition, most of the Counties that I have dealt with, also have a marriage register with the marriage info just as Carla is also referring to. The forms to request copies of records from the Archives are for ordering any kinds of records that are available there. A complete listing of what is available for which county can be found here: http://www.ah.dcr.state.nc.us/archives/FindingAids/co_guide.pdf Scroll down to the county of choice. Deloris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joanne Gaudio" <jgaudio@charter.net> To: <ncwake@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2007 2:06 PM Subject: Re: [NCWAKE] Availability of Wake County Marriage Licenses > Carla, you know more about how the Archives work than just about anyone, > and > I know your advice is excellent. However, it does say on that request > form > that the Archives has for us to print out on their website that their > marriages go up to 1868! I've always thought they meant the marriage > bonds, > which did end around then I think, but as I said to Tee, I've certainly > gotten later marriages by just writing in the dates I wanted. I wish > they'd > redo their form! > Joanne Gaudio > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NCWAKE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/813 - Release Date: 5/20/2007 > 7:54 AM > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.467 / Virus Database: 269.7.6/813 - Release Date: 5/20/2007 7:54 AM