Dave Tanner wrote: > An overly simply explanation might be that these county record books > were in alphabetical order on a shelf at a Provincial office. > > K for Kings would be next to L for Lunenburg and maybe the wrong book > was taken down in error to record a Lunenburg entry. That is a possibility. However it depends on how the provincial records were kept. I think we are looking at the Pprovincial copies of the Registers and compilations of Marriage Slips. In Massachusetts form the early 1840s, the town entered the information from the marriage slip into a Register, this register was copied and sent to the State. Errors were made in making the register transcriptions What was the procedure in NS? I note that the earlier records are the images of the registers. I do not know if the registers we see are the county copy or the provincial copy. Later records are the marriage slips or copies thereof with a notation on the slip of the book and page numbers. Did the county send the marriage slips to Halifax where they were entered into the registers by by the provincial authorities in county registers, or did the County Registrar enter the marriage slip info into the county register. The procedure must have changed at some point but on line we cannot browse the pages of the registers to see when a change was made. bob gillis