I sense some misunderstanding on this List about the Sussex Marriage Index which SFHG issued on CD in 2004 comprising details of over 300,000 marriages by Banns or Licence and includes Catholic, Nonconformist and Quaker marriages. As well as marriages in Sussex it includes Sussex spouses who married in Surrey, London and Fleet. The few addenda were put on the SFHG website and are included on later copies of the CD. But as the completed index of every extant record is on CD, SFHG have no plans to put the Index on the members' Data Archive. When the Index was conceived nearly 50 years ago it was intended as a finding device for EVERY known marriage prior to General Registration which began on 1st July 1837. If you have found just one Sussex ancestor who married before 1837, the Index can potentially find thousands more of your ancestors in the preceding 12 generations in the 300 years back to 1538 when King Henry VIII set up Parish Registers. A Sussex Family Historian without the Sussex Marriage Index CD is like a writer without a dictionary ! Joe Bysh, Publications Officer, SFHG #5525 ----- Original Message ----- > > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:26:44 -0000 > From: Judy Excell <[email protected]> > Think I should point out that SMI is up to 1837, erratically a little > further. > Judy Excell > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 7:26 PM > The SMI only covers as far as 1850, Roger. .... > Phil Vaughan > > Roger Nash > Sent: November-27-12 1:59 PM > Subject: [SFHG] Denyer marriage > Please can someone with access to Sussex Marriage Index check out a > marriage in about 1870 +- 5 years for James Denyer of Kirdford to Martha. > They have no children in 1871 census in Plaistow Kirdford, so I believe > them > to be newly married. A possible marriage is to Martha Meredith Nightingale > (born Warnham) in 1871 Petworth District. My normal method of finding them > on the same page in the indexes on Ancestry has defeated me! > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:04:58 -0500 > From: sandra moffatt <[email protected]> > Does anyone with access to the Sussex marriage index do a look up for me? > I'm trying to see if a James Hobden appeared on many marriage records in > Bolney as a witness. (1800-1830) Thank you,Sandra > 22/11/1820 > ?Groom??????????HOBDEN Thomas > Bride???????? ????STARLEY Martha > Witness???? HOBDEN James > Witness???? TAYLOR John > ? > ? > Neal