It is kinda frustrating using their site. The lower number books I try using A, then B, then C-before the volume number. Sometimes I come up with a winner that way. I also try various spellings of the last name. The original books were just about as confusing. I did have the opportunity to go through them before they started digitally scanning them. Had to check through many indexes just to get the book/page number. Carol On Jan 6, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Amy D wrote: > It's widely known and mourned here locally that there were several fires at > the courthouse, resulting in the loss of countless records. Naturalization, > marriage, birth, death etc. It's very unfortunate and a terrible loss. But > true. > > To Carol: My last message didn't exclude any of those instances. My point > was and remains, that the actual certificates just don't exist for the most > part, and that would probably explain why the online records are returning > invalid links to Tom. > > My guess is that this is why the county was so easily able to put the > records online; simply because so many of them were destroyed and all that > is left is reconstructions, indexes, and the like. > > It's really disappointing, to say the least. > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Tom <texastee10@att.net> wrote: > >> I've run into many instances where a fire was given credit for missing >> record, this to include my Army records in St Louis which miraculously were >> resurrected a few years later, if individuals listed ON the index link to >> nothing, then it shouldn't be stated those records are available as part of >> 1.1 million. Just having an index is virtually meaningless. When in >> Cincinnati, I've had no problem finding the actual marriage record from the >> index. In fact, I have one record that is on page 506 but when input into >> the Volume/Page portion it comes back as an invalid volume. I wouldn't be >> trumpeting this as a huge accomplishment with so much missing. I hope the >> originals haven't been destroyed because this effort has huge holds to >> fill. >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "Amy D" <froneamy@gmail.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 1:48 PM >> To: <ohhamilt@rootsweb.com> >> Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] PROBATE COURT RECORDS ONLINE >> >>> The marriages were one of the records almost completely lost in the >> fires. >>> They were largely reconstructed from church and newspaper records that >>> still >>> exist. I don' t know why they would list volumes for the certificates if >>> they don't exist. >>> >>> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Tom <texastee10@att.net> wrote: >>> >>>> Does anyone have an idea of the breakdown of these 1.1 million records? >>>> >>>> Having scanned the menu it seems to me that marriage record would be the >>>> most numerous of all options. I have family in Cincinnati since the >>>> 1840's >>>> with a number of marriages to date but I in spite of that I have found >>>> about >>>> 90% of the returns come back with an invalid Volume. And yes, I have >> put >>>> an >>>> A, B, and C in front of the volume, this has helped on a rare occasion. >>>> Seems to me that 1.1 million includes the amount of people listed on the >>>> marriage index but not the certificate itself. I'm I the only one who's >>>> banging their head against the wall or am I missing a trick? >>>> >>>> Thank you, >>>> >>>> Tom >>>> >>>> >>>>> Today, the Cincinnati Enquirer announcd that 1.1 million Hamilton Co. >>>>> court >>>>> documents such as birth, death, marriage, estate, naturalization and >>>>> oter >>>>> records - some dating back to 1791, go online to: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> To contact the List Administrator, send an email to: Kaesemein@aol.com >>>> >>>> Did you miss a message? 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You can find it in the list's archives here: >> >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/OHHAMILT/ >> >> Don't forget--there is also a message board for Hamilton County: >> >> >> http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.hamilton/mb.ashx >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> OHHAMILT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > To contact the List Administrator, send an email to: Kaesemein@aol.com > > Did you miss a message? You can find it in the list's archives here: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/OHHAMILT/ > > Don't forget--there is also a message board for Hamilton County: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohio.counties.hamilton/mb.ashx > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHHAMILT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message