New website went up this weekend, and it is very much a work in progress. It is an index to marriages (earlier than the Douglas county website) by both bride & groom. This is not being taken from the index that already exists, but being done from certificates. The films are at the W. Dale Clark library, paper copies for earlier years are at Douglas County Historical Society. People from all over were married in Douglas county (including a couple who listed their residence as Chicago.) We are trying to limit the entries to two lines per couple (one with the bride's name first, one with the groom's first), but when there are several ways of spelling the name in the application and license, it will show up in the index under the variations because we aren't clairvoyant to figure out what it really should be. Later years have a certificate number. This is almost more important to have than the name or the date of the marriage in later records because they were filed numerically. But if you can't come to the W. Dale Clark library personally, be sure to include the certificate number with the names of that couple you're looking for. By having both when you come, or when you write, you're more likely to get the right one. Mistakes can happen anywhere along the line, in the original record, in the transcriber (earliest records were handwritten, and some of the handwriting was awful), in the typing, or sometimes the computer changes things when you try to post...as it's been gving us fits when we try to post M surnames). It may grow slowly, because it takes second place to indexing obits...except that doing something with the records of people who were living at the time the record was made is a pleasant change from always looking for dead people's records (if you get the difference, since most of the ones on the marriage licenses are also going to be by now.) There will be later links on the site, there will be more names coming. It is very much a work in progress. So have fun, and maybe you can find some needed data for your families. Good luck, Karen **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851)