Nancy Vermont law did not require that town clerks keep vital records until 1856. Some town clerks voluntarily kept vital records before that date, however such records were not uniformly kept or available today. Mal Bevins, VTCHITTE-L Manager Nancy Vogt wrote: > --WebTV-Mail-401-3986 > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > I am having the same difficulty with obtaining a marriage record for > 1846. > > I am of the opinion that the only other source would be to locate church > records kept by the minister. Perhaps the Mormans have filmed these?? > > Does anyone on the list know if such records exist for the time frame of > 1800-1850? > > Nancy > > --WebTV-Mail-401-3986 > Content-Disposition: Inline > Content-Type: Message/RFC822 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > > Received: from mailsorter-101-7.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.41) by > storefull-112.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 > 21:15:57 -0700 (PDT) > Return-Path: <VTCHITTE-L-request@rootsweb.com> > Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by > mailsorter-101-7.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2) > with ESMTP id VAA17836; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:15:44 -0700 (PDT) > Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id > e6B493217900; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:09:03 -0700 > Resent-Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:09:03 -0700 > X-Original-Sender: JCUSTODIO@webtv.net Mon Jul 10 21:09:03 2000 > X-WebTV-Signature: 1 > ETAtAhUAj1PsukXtiUxVZgBqaXUZuDQXzJoCFE7rq/RgezNYYiuEviRWVypak2Kh > From: JCUSTODIO@webtv.net (Juanita Custodio) > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:09:07 -0600 (MDT) > Old-To: VTCHITTE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Vt town records > Message-ID: <11955-396A9DE3-6693@storefull-234.iap.bryant.webtv.net> > In-Reply-To: VTCHITTE-D-request@rootsweb.com's message of Fri, 20 Aug 1999 > 23:21:17 -0700 (PDT) > Content-Disposition: Inline > Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > MIME-Version: 1.0 (WebTV) > Resent-Message-ID: <2gpg8B.A.cXE.f3pa5@lists6.rootsweb.com> > To: VTCHITTE-L@rootsweb.com > Resent-From: VTCHITTE-L@rootsweb.com > X-Mailing-List: <VTCHITTE-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/622 > X-Loop: VTCHITTE-L@rootsweb.com > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender: VTCHITTE-L-request@rootsweb.com > > Hi---if you recall I was trying to locate a marriage record for 1837 for > RICHARD E LOOMIS and FIDELIA CLOFF/CLUFF. First I wrote to Montpelior > who responded that they had no records (and kept my money)...Then I > wrote to the town clerk of Charlotte, Chittenden Co and this was her > response: "Sorry -- No records were found -- our vital records only go > back to approx. 1857." and she returned my check.....Now what??? > Juanita > > --WebTV-Mail-401-3986--