Gail, Thank you! That makes me feel a little better about it being out there and wrong. Heaven knows I've done my best to get it corrected everywhere I have found it wrong, and I am still happy to send a copy of the bond to anyone that is interested in "seeing for themselves." Thanks again, Betty Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: <Aarah@aol.com> To: <TNGRAING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 9:16 AM Subject: Re: [TNGRAING-L] marriage lookups > Betty, > The Ancestry info on John and Sally comes from a database called > "Tennessee > Marriages to 1825" and was compiled by Liahona Research at the LDS Family > History Library in Salt Lake City, UT. The introduction to the database > states that > it unfortunately does not contain citations for the origin of each entry > and > advises to use only as a place to start in gathering information. > Gail Mynatt Zeigler > In a message dated 2/23/2006 7:35:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, > bjrb@hotmail.com writes: > Hi, Melissa, > > Where did you get the info that John Roach married Sally Romans in 1823? > If > it is printed in some book, it is wrong. People have been citing that > date > for years and some books even have him marrying Sally Bowmans. It looks > to > me like someone transcribing the marriage records inadvertently skipped a > line in the entry and that produced an error, both in the date and in > Sally's name. I have a copy of the original bond, and they married in > 1820. > They were my 4th g-grandparents. This John was a nephew of the John that > Shar is looking for a marriage record for. > > Thanks. > > Betty > Texas > > > ==== TNGRAING Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE please send your message to tngraing-l-request@rootsweb.com > >