Barb--I'm sorry, but I just can't do any look-ups because I have more the 20 films to go through before September. I simply do not have the time. I would try, but the film is extremely difficult to read, and it would take hours to find anything on it. I never would have found my ancestors on that film if I hadn't had the date and their names. Also, I knew they were there beforehand because I had found their names in an index with a source reference for the film. The film I looked at appears to be single pieces of paper, almost scraps, which could have been torn from books. On these pieces of paper are written names and dates of marriages. For example, the paper on which I found my ancestors had the following information: "October 6 1800 Married Jorg [can't read the last name] two Elisabeth Marin Nov 22 Married jeremah rodgers two Mahala harding Mar 19 1801 Married josiah Clark two Caty Westfall By Me Th Cojad [something illegible]" I used the same capitalization and spelling that appeared on the film. I surmise that justices of the peace or other officials, performed marriages throughout the year, kept a record on pieces of paper or in some notebook, and then took the papers to the place of recording (probably the county seat) once or twice a year. Notice that the above page has marriages for October, November, and March. The record probably was kept during the winter and then recorded at the county seat after the weather cleared. The pieces of paper were written by a lot of different people from all over the county, and some of the handwriting is totally illegible. My advice would be to check first with an index to make sure your ancestors are on the film. LDS has an index: Film #961018. I used an index I had found in my local library which was on a CD by Family Tree Maker. The CD referred to the following film: Marriage papers 1795-1808 Sussex Co NJ County Clerk, Film #1294801. The index gave my ancestor as "Jopah Clark." I knew his name was Josiah and wondered why the index said, Jopah. It turned out that it was not clearly written on the originally paper, but his name was Josiah. Unless you question what the index says, or unless you want a copy of the piece of paper from the film, you will find no additional information on the film that was not already in the index. This is a long way to say: You should check with the index first. I'm sending this to the list because the marriage film was mentioned there last week. Hope this helps. Pat >Pat--I was wondering if you'd gotten to those marriage record films yet. I'm >looking for 3 marriages, would you do look-ups? > >Isaac Vantile Coursen and Phebe Hurd > >Nathan Armstrong Shafer and Sarah Linn I have April 10, 1822 > >Joseph Hurd Coursen and Mary Elizabeth Shafer (I have Nov. 14, 1844) > >thanks in advance for your time and consideration > >Barb Frost