In Illinois you will find the parents names listed on marriage records, but I don't know about New Jersey. Seems every state did things differently when it came to things like keeping records. Cheryl in rainy Oregon

Hi Cheryl, My name is Gail Benson from NJ, but heading to Oregon next week. Just wondering where you were and how bad the weather is. We're heading to Tualatin, just south of Portland [email protected] wrote: In Illinois you will find the parents names listed on marriage records, but I don't know about New Jersey. Seems every state did things differently when it came to things like keeping records. Cheryl in rainy Oregon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited.

In Chicago, Cook County, which has close to half of the state's population, parents WERE NOT listed on marriage certificates as late as 1930. I don't know about after that -- or other counties. The easiest and cheapest way to get Illinois marriage and death records is to use the state indexes online and follow the directions and the forms you will find there for getting them from the regional state archives located in the region of the state for which you seek the information. Depending on whose law was applying at the time you are seeking, the licenses can be very different from county to county and even from town to town within the various states in the US. Most states did not standardize birth, marriage and death certificates until very recently, many in the mid-to-late 20th century. In 1958, my marriage license was a local municipal record in Bergen County, New Jersey. If you went to Newark to get a record, then that those particular Newark records were under local municipal control also, not a county or state record, for that time -- and so you would go again to the municipality to get another record. Each level of government keeps its own record -- so you need to locate the law covering birth, marriage or death -- whatever is the record you are seeking -- and the custom and law for your place and your year, because the law changes from time to time and from place to place and then the custom must change to follow the new law. It figures that old NJ would be earlier than some states -- Arizona, for instance, did not even become a state until 1912 or something like that. [email protected] wrote: In Illinois you will find the parents names listed on marriage records, but I don't know about New Jersey. Seems every state did things differently when it came to things like keeping records. Cheryl in rainy Oregon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A.