This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GkB.2ACI/925.1 Message Board Post: The Bowie County courthouse burned in January 1889 destroying all records kept there. A few 1888 marriage records and 1889 through 1930 are available from a link on the BC Gen Web site but none before. Marland Old