List members may be interested in the status of the Rensselaer County Marriage Index Project and the continuing need for help on this project. Currently Volumes 1 to 7, with their 40,000 names, are available on line on the TIGS website, www.rootsweb.com/~nytigs/ This index is the most popular data series on the TIGS website. Work is now being done on Volumes 8 and 9 as follows: 1. Volume 8: As previously mentioned, the index pages for this volume do not show the marriage number and the date of the marriage. Several local TIGS volunteers have helped in looking up the names in the Marriage Book itself, to obtain this information and post it to the photocopy of the marriage index page. To date 69 pages of the index have been completed which leave 47 pages remaining to be worked on. This is where help can be used. If you are in there Troy area and can spend an hours or so do some lookups, it would be a great help. Until these lookups are done, the 47 pages cannot be scanned and sent to transcribers for data entry. The 69 pages completed so far cover Brides and Grooms names from A to Me and all of these records have been transcribed and proofread. 2. Volume 9: All of the Volume 9 index pages for Grooms AND Brides names have been scanned. Work is continuing on data entry of these pages and to date nearly all Grooms names from A to Py have been data entered and proof read. Volume 9 is an exceptionally large index book and may have 10,000 names in it. Additional transcribers can always be used to help with the data entry. If anyone has an interest in helping with this project, either doing data entry OR helping with the Volume 8 lookups at the County Clerk's Office in Troy, they can write me off list at: seamus@nycap.rr.com Regards, Bill McGrath TIGS Project Coordinator Clifton Park, NY