This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: lhanks1 Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.fairfield/1448.1.1.2/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Cheryl, This is not a perfect world and it seems that especially applies to genealogy! Marg very kindly checked her Ohio marriage CD for a marriage in Hancock Co. for me. She did not find it. However, being suspicious of a wonderful CD with all the Ohio marriages, I checked RootWeb's "Books we own" and found a person who had Hancock Marriage books published by the DAR. I contacted her and she found the marriage. (Sorry Marg! It does not have all of Ohio marriages) We have been looking for a marriage for our Jonathan MASON and Ann Sophia GRIMES, probably abt. 1828, for more than 25 years. They were residing in Violet Twp., Fairfield Co., OH so I thought Licking Co. might be a posibility. Unfortunately Licking has had several courthouse fires. I looked at FHL film # 1320513, item # 17 - Licking Co., Ohio Marriages 1808-1875. It was not the original records but a typed extraction. While I had the film, there were other marriages that I decided to check for as well. I found the following note in the "T's": "From 1829-1839 no marriages recorded". I had not seen it in the other portions that I had looked through. Only last names starting with the letter "T"? That seemed strange. On closer examination, I discovered there was a gap in that time period in all the letters. Either the book for 1829-1839 was lost (fire?) or no marriages were recorded. Linda Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.