This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CZB.2ACI/2439.1 Message Board Post: Before 1898, Ohio marriage records did not include parents names. If either person was under age, there might be a note that the parents permission was on file. But where are those files now? In the courthouse attice covered in bird crap or just lost?