Sharon, Thanks for the suggestion to check the New Jersey archives online for the late 1820s (probably 1828) marriage of my Hunterdon County ancestors Aaron STRIMPLE and Keziah STOUT. I had not thought to look there. All, This evening I went to the New Jersey State Archives web site, in particular to http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/databases.html My complication is that this site gives indexes to marriages between 1666 and 1799 and between 1848 and 1867, and the marriage record I'm seeking is for about 1828. However, http://www.state.nj.us/state/darm/links/webcat/queries/cxxmarri.html says that there are 10 reels of microfilms of Hunterdon County marriage records for 1795-1900 "organized by surname of officiant." Since I clicked on a link at https://wwwnet1.state.nj.us/DOS/Admin/ArchivesDBPortal/Marriage1867.aspx to get to this page, and it says "Our County Marriage Records catalog page has information about county marriage records held at the State Archives." I assume the microfilms are available for viewing in Trenton. I don't know whether copies of these microfilms are available anywhere in Hunterdon County. I've also checked this evening "Hunterdon County, New Jersey Marriages, 1795-1875" at Ancestry.com (as far as I can go without a subscription). I found a couple of Strimple marriages that I recognized as those of relatives, but not the Strimple-Stout marriage I'm looking for. This particular database is apparently based on a 1915-1918 series in the Hunterdon County Democrat newspaper that was published in a 1986 book "Marriage Records of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, 1795-1875" by Hiram E. Deats. (And, my notes say I searched this book a few years ago.) In 2005 Marfy Goodspeed told me that the Genealogical Magazine of NJ (vol 72 no 3 pg 136) lists the marriage of Aaron Strimple's parents, John Strimple and Elizabeth Pettit. I admit that I have not yet looked at this article (but hope to get a copy in a couple of months when I visit a library that has this publication). In the past I've had success with finding documentation of marriages in the GSNJ's Bible and Family Records collection housed at Rutgers but I haven't been able to find anything related to the marriage of Aaron Strimple and Keziah Stout using the online index at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njgsnj/collectionguide.html (Keziah's birth is listed in Bible 2853.) I've hoped to find estate papers for the father of Keziah Stout, Samuel Stout (1779-bef 1846), in hopes of finding a reference to "my daughter Keziah Strimple" or similar but so far have not succeeded. (The Hunterdon Gazette 25 February 1846 says that Letitia Stout "wife of Samuel Stout, deceased" died in Sergeantsville 25 February 1846.) Frances Van Scoy, [email protected] VanScoy-Knapp reunion, [email protected] ************** Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15?ncid=aolhom00030000000001)