Terri While New Jersey passed a law requiring births, marriages, and deaths to be recorded and reported to the state starting in 1848 there was no enforcement mechanism. Prior to 1900 many of these events were not reported to the state. The further back you go the more things were not reported. If you know what county the marriage took place in you can try county historical societies. They may have county or church records. Curt Miller -------------- Original message -------------- From: taire@webtv.net (Terri) > > Hello - > > A question, for a friend, but the answer will probably help everyone > else also -- > > If a person has searched the new NJ Archives marriage base and not found > the needed marriage, should they write to the Archives requesting a > search anyway? And if the marriage was not found, but strongly > "supposed" to have been in NJ in 1853, what might be some reasons for it > not being there?? > > Thank you -- Terri > > > ==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== > New Jersey Legislative Alerts: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/legislation.html > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >
Terri If you know the religeon of your family back then you can check church records by going to your nearest FHC and ordering microfilm to search through. I can't tell you how many family members I found this way. Maryann Clark curtw@comcast.net wrote: Terri While New Jersey passed a law requiring births, marriages, and deaths to be recorded and reported to the state starting in 1848 there was no enforcement mechanism. Prior to 1900 many of these events were not reported to the state. The further back you go the more things were not reported. If you know what county the marriage took place in you can try county historical societies. They may have county or church records. Curt Miller -------------- Original message -------------- From: taire@webtv.net (Terri) > > Hello - > > A question, for a friend, but the answer will probably help everyone > else also -- > > If a person has searched the new NJ Archives marriage base and not found > the needed marriage, should they write to the Archives requesting a > search anyway? And if the marriage was not found, but strongly > "supposed" to have been in NJ in 1853, what might be some reasons for it > not being there?? > > Thank you -- Terri > > > ==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== > New Jersey Legislative Alerts: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/legislation.html > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > ==== NJ-GSNJ Mailing List ==== Visit our Collections Guide: http://www.rootsweb.com/~njgsnj/collectionguide.html ============================== View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find marriage announcements and more. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.