Thanks for finding and steering us towards this important piece of information Bill. We all appreciate it. Jim. --- On Fri, 5/9/08, bill <wmcconne@bellsouth.net> wrote: > From: bill <wmcconne@bellsouth.net> > Subject: [TNMARION] New marriage info > To: tnmarion@rootsweb.com > Date: Friday, May 9, 2008, 7:20 AM > First a disclaimer. I am not promoting any paid service. I > just want > researchers to know what's available. In this case > it's ancestry.com which > many local libraries have access to and is free for you to > use at the > library. > > Ancestry.com has added a database called Tennessee State > Marriages > 1765-2002. As far as I can tell there are no Marion county > marriages > included in this database before 1880. There are 1,656 > marriages listed for > Marion in the 1880's and then no more until 1919. > Fortunately Euline's books > cover this "blank" period. For the 1880's > marriage records, the index will > take you to an actual image of the marriage book(s). > > Now the wow! part. Beginning about 1919 and through 2002 , > it appears that > any marriage that was recorded in Marion is in the > database. The index will > take you to an image of the marriage bond, marriage > certificate or marriage > certificate application with the return stub which the > minister signs > depending on which year you are searching in. These > applications sometimes > include one or more parents signatures. > > For example, I found my daughter's marriage application > in 1993 including > the minister's signature. Same for my sister who was > married in 1967 and > same for my parents who were married in 1941(this one also > included the > marriage bond). Also found the marriage bond and marriage > certificate for my > grandparents who were married in 1904 in White county. > > I did look up some old girl friends to see who they married > but I have not > fully explored this resource yet. > > Some points to remember: > > The dates I have given above for data availability apply > only to Marion > county - some counties have more of the older info. > > The data from the 4 largest counties is not included - same > as is the case > for most TN vital records online. > > There are numerious transcription errors in the index but I > have not found > that to be a problem in locating a marriage and then you > can look at the > actual record to see for yourself what it says. > > Bill Mc > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > PLEASE NOTE: This list is for queries and replies, > comments, > requests for help, and other genealogical related > information > that is of interest to researchers having a connection or > a > possible connection to Marion County, Tennessee. There is > no > soliciting or advertising of any item or service for sale > allowed. > Betty McBee - list administrator-- macbetty2@peoplepc.com > Marion County Web Site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~tnmario2/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNMARION-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ

Marilyn Garner was sent the following info by a Melungeon researcher. I find it fascinating in several respects. If you have researched Marion & Hamilton counties you will recognize some of the witnesses names and read their testimony about where they lived at various times, relationships, etc. This is the link to the website: http://jgoins.com/Hamilton_case.htm The info that was sent to Marilyn (the trial transcript) is the last link on the page "Notes/Shepherd Trial" I would suggest reading the info at the link "Lewis Shepherd ("Romance of the Melungeons')" first so that you will better understand what the trial is about. Bill Mc