On Fri, 16 May 2003 17:20:17 EDT BobWambach@aol.com writes: <snipped> > espowell@juno.com (Elissa in Pittsburgh) wrote to state that I needed to find > a marriage record for Howard. That is very true, but easier said than done, > since I live some distance east of Rochester, NY, hundreds of miles from > Erie! If there is a way to search those records without traveling to Erie, I > would appreciate hearing about it. I am able to search for Richard Brown in > the New York State Birth/Marriage/Death Index, which is available at the main > library in Rochester, but I don't know if Pennsylvania has anything comparable. > Elissa, thank you and I hope you enjoy that National Genealogical Conference > May 28-31, 2003 being held in your city! > Best wishes to you all, > Bob Wambach > Ontario, Wayne County, NY Bob, You asked to hear if there was a way to view marriage records without travelling to Erie: If there is a LDS Family History Center near you (you can check at www.FamilySearch.org) then you can go there and order the microfilm that they did of the Erie County Marriages: Marriage license dockets, 1885-1950 ; index, 1885-1968 Authors Erie County (Pennsylvania). Clerk of the Orphans' Court (Main Author) Notes Microfilm of the original records from the Erie County Courthouse in Erie, Pennsylvania. Marriages are filed by date of application for license, not the date of marriage nor the date of filing, both of which occurred later. You can find the film numbers for the indexes and the dockets at www.FamilySearch.org in the card catalog under the locality of Erie (county) but you have to go to your local family history center (usually within a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints building) to do the ordering. So you see, you don't have to necessarily travel to the source to get source documents. The LDS center is the best way to travel across the country or across the ocean to view records. Just check their card catalog periodically. I have done my Scalise relative from Erie back to when grandpa came from Italy in 1901 through to abut 1725 through the LDS records. Now I am waiting for them to film northern Italy so I can do the same for Grandma. Yes, Bob I will greatly enjoy the 4-day National Genealogical Society conference here in Pittsburgh. It promises to be great fun and you never know when you will learn that key piece that makes the doors open to your entire genealogical past. And it is free to visit the vendor hall with over 100 vendors of genealogical software, books, CDs, etc. Visit www.eshow2000.com/ngs for more information on the conference and to see the vendors who are coming. -- Elissa in Pittsburgh ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today!