Re: Terri's question, Curt Miller and Helen Maliszewski were right on the mark. I'll add that we guess that recording was somewhere around the 50% level for the early post-1848 years of filing. That hasn't been tested, it's just the impression of staff. We also find, as Helen noted, that there are many marriages recorded in the county books for this time period that do not show up in the state records. The county books continue till 1878, when, at which time the Clerk's were relieved of this responsibility by law. (Lucky for us all there were duplicate filing requirements for thirty years.) Our search engine page (sorry so slow--we're working on it!) notes the counties we're still cleaning up. We do the first round of data entry from the existing handwritten indexes, and then go back an verify from the original books. Also, we don't search the marriage books for all of the counties--just the ones for which we hold the originals. We have most available on microfilm, though. The database page includes the relevant links within the Archives' site. Best to all, Joe Klett, Chief of Archives