At 01:29 PM 2/7/99 EST, you wrote: >Unfortunately although supposedly the county was started up in 1850 on paper, >it didn't get going quite that early in reality, and then marriage records >apparently don't start until 1864...perhaps because of the war. I suppose a >lot of others on this list have a lot of "black hole" marriages they can't >find dates for that would have occurred during that time period. > The above is not exactly true. The county was organized in 1849 and became a reality in 1850; however, the marriage records that one may be looking for were all destroyed when the court house burned in 1969. And, not only marriage records were destroyed but deeds and many other documents that would enable one to do genealogical research........liz