I have received a request for help and am tossing it out to all the pro's on this list. This lady is a real fan of TIGS and has only praise for the projects we undertake, I hope we can give her some help and/or direction Thanks Kristin Cooney-Ayotte I noticed your name in associationwith the Troy Irish Genealogical Society and the project of indexing marriagesfrom 1908-1930's. What a great help to the genealogist. Too bad they don't havea link on the city of Troy homepage. I see births and deaths at the bottom. I have been taking a couple ofgenealogy refresher courses recently. I started back in 1984 with no Internet. Ihave made many trips to the Archives in DC during the 80's. I wanted to catchup on what I may have missed with Internet sites and it really can beoverwhelming. The reason I am writing is I'mwondering if you can give some advice for a record that my husband and I havelong ago searched for but can't seem to find. It is a marriage license of hisgrandparents: Jan/John STACHURA and Caroline/Karolina GAWRON. They camefrom Poland and went to St. Michael's in Cohoes since there was no Polishchurch in Troy. We went to the church a while ago and the priest looked itup but could not find any record. He did find the baptism of their first child,Anna, July 4, 1904. I found Karolina on a passenger listarriving March 10, 1903 at the age of 16. Even if there was a churchrecord, did there have to be a civil record also? If something happened to thechurch record I thought there might be another place it was recorded. So mythought is either in Cohoes or Troy. I know one can submit a search at the NYDept of Health but it said it would take 8 months and better to go to thecourthouse. I get the impression that they don't allow the public to search theselocal records. Something else I just thought of isthat she would not have turned 18 until May 10, 1904 two months before Anna'sbirth. What happens if someone is a minor? My grandmother was under theage of 18 in PA and had to have a guardian in order to get married. I don't mind sending in a request toeither Cohoes or Troy but I was just thinking you or someone in your group mighthave some other knowledge or experiences with something like this. Thanks for any thoughts about this puzzle.