E-mail address change: my address has canged from [email protected] to [email protected] Thank you, Anna -----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >Sent: Aug 17, 2006 8:33 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [VAROCKIN] Re: Gaines & Cammack, Piner & Cammack > >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/5BC.2ACI/1597.1 > >Message Board Post: > >I'm not aware of the destruction of marriage bonds in the civil war fire; mostly it was wills and deeds that were destroyed--many deeds were only partially burned. > >Often the marriage bonds give the name of the bride's father (who often also serves as bondsman and signs the bond). You might try writing the Rockingham Co., VA courthouse in Harrisonburg, VA and request these bonds. With luck the bonds will give the bride's father's name and if he served as bondsman too, you can compare signatures. >