Candy and Bruce, noticed this message and wondered if you know of a marriage index for Iowa, ??? i would be so happy to hear that there is, i am new at this and need your kind help. BVB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Candy and Bruce Hughes" <av8ryx@yelmtel.com> To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] online Indiana marriage index > one is at > http://genealogytoday.com/pub/indmarr.htm > > but I think there's a better one which includes location > http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/isl/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html > > with any luck at all that's the one ... > > Candy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "CM" <clm@charter.net> > To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: June 12, 2003 07:22 PM > Subject: Re: [RC-ROOTS] gold > > > > Candy, > > Where can you find the marriages online for Indiana? > > Candace > > > > > > At 11:59 AM 6/12/03 -0700, Candy and Bruce Hughes wrote > > >you are lucky if you're researching in Indiana, as the marriage > > >returns are online (albeit with transcription errors -- > > >Sarah Hamner is shown as "Hammer", and Zillah Morris is > > >shown as "Zerrah", for example) > > > > > >wish the BIRTH certificates were online, as I still don't know > > >where in Indiana my grandfather was born, in 1874 ... > > > > > >Candy > > > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > > To post your SURNAMES ON MESSAGE BOARDS: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/ > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO CONTACT THE LIST ADMIN: > please click here and send: > mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

this was posted on Rootsweb in 2001, on the IOWA list ..... ....site that will do free lookups for you, the one listed below is the one for Iowa Marriages 1851-1900. There are many other lookups they will do for you..... http://www.ancestralfindings.com/cd222.htm haven't checked it out myself, it just came up in a search on Google actually, though it is frustrating at times, it is great fun being a beginner at tracing family ... the rewards come fairly quickly after a bit of hard work ... as you learn techniques, you surmount ever-bigger brick walls, and the rewards may not come as often (but they are still sweet) one of the best ways to gather information is to sign up for the various county and surname mailing lists available from Rootsweb, read the back archives of those too, and check the Genforum message boards some people love Ancestry.com (some records are free, most require a subscription) and others say they haven't gotten much information the LDS church has masses of records on its website, but DO NOT BELIEVE WHAT YOU SEE JUST BECAUSE IT'S THERE -- for reasons too complicated to go into this late at night, there are a lot of "lineages" which incorporate people who are not related to each other in the way they are presented; and there are "composite" people sort of *created* by merging the information from two or three or five or ten actual people ... not all of whom were related -- there are also many quite accurate records, and it's difficult-to-impossible to tell those apart sometimes Candy (actually only an experienced-beginner) Candy