Pat, Pay a visit to the USSGENEB site for TN. There are links to all the counties and Bedford has a wonderful site including addresses to loca resources, I believe. Might search for their marriage online as well with their search engine searching for one of the parties. I like the short display vice the long but to each his one. Tried to go there just now, but looks as if they are replacing their server. Check out the county courthouse...use the yellow pages. Mike ----Original Message Follows---- From: Pat Nichols <patnich@gte.net> Reply-To: TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com To: TNBEDFOR-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TNBEDFOR] Marriage record Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 17:42:39 -0600 Where could I locate a marriage record from 1857? The LDS site lists David Carlton Allen m America Jane Rainey Bedford County, 3 mar 1857. I found them in Missouri in 1880, the census indicates that America was born in Tennessee, David in North Carolina. Does anyone have any info on Raineys in Bedford County or could tell me where or if I could get a copy of the marriage record? These are my ggrandparents. Based on America's age in the census, she would have been born abt 1839. Thanks, Pat Nichols ============================== 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 _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus