There was a courthouse fire in 1884 where many of the marriage records were lost. There are reconstructed marriage records that were taken from a variety of sources in an attempt to replace those burned. They came from newspapers, church records and other court documents. There is a chance that not all records were restored. To order any restored records you could write to : Hamilton County Probate Court William Howard Taft Center Records Department Ninth Floor 230 E. Ninth Street Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-2145 Their phone number is (513) 946-3551. You'll need to send an SASE, but do not send money at the time of the request, they'll inform you of the cost. There are abstracts in book form which I can look in if you have a specific name. These do not include names of parents (and at this time period, originals normally did not either). The key may be to figure out which church they attended. What religion were they? If they were Protestant their children's baptisms may be in a set titled "Selected Hamilton County, Ohio, church baptism records". If you do not live in the Cincinnati area and are able to narrow it down to which church (or two or three) they possibly attended, you may want to hire a researcher to look through those for a marriage entry. Sometimes church entries do list more information than just date and the parties involved, but I would say it's a 50/50 chance. If your ancestors were Catholic, you can contact the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and they can conduct a paid search for you. Since they charge by the hour you may want to narrow down addresses they lived at after their marriage to help the archivist narrow down the potential parish of marriage. You can now search and view old Cincinnati city directories online at http://virtuallibrary.cincinnatilibrary.org/virtuallibrary/vl_CityDir.aspx. I hope this helps. LeeAnn Cincinnati> From: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:03:49 -0400> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: [OHHAMILT] Hamilton Co. marriage records for 1800's> > In a message dated 6/23/2008 1:10:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes:> Thanks so much for the reply, Marilyn!> > Another question if I might ask? Where do you write to get a copy of the > original marriage certificate? And how much do they cost?> > Best regards,> Diana> > ----------------------------> > Diana, > > A friend of mine picked mine up at the Hamilton Co. Probate Court, > > Hamilton County Probate Court> 230 E. 9th> William Howard Taft Center> Cincinnati, OH 45202> 513-946-3600 > Marriage License: (513) 946-3589> > but I think she searched the records herself and made a copy so I can't > remember if she was charged a fee.> > But according to _www.vitalrec.com_ (http://www.vitalrec.com) , there's a > $2.00 charge;> > _http://www.vitalrec.com/ohcounties6.html#Hamilton_ > (http://www.vitalrec.com/ohcounties6.html#Hamilton) > > You might want to contact the probate court to get information about what > type of payment they will > accept.> > Good Luck,> Marilyn> > > > > **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for > fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)> > > To contact the List Administrator, send an email to: [email protected]> > 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message