For those of you like me who never read "search tips," I found that the fewer letters you put in, the better. For example, for a name spelled multiple ways, like "Rybold" or "Reibold," put in: "Ryb" "Rei" You can pick up all the variations, plus badly misspelled entries you would never have hit on otherwise. Dianne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Melissa McLimans" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 4:46 PM Subject: [WILACROS] Marriages Added to Vital Records Index > We at the Wisconsin Historical Society are so excited to announce the > addition of marriage records to the Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records Index > located at www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords. > > That's right; marriages can now be searched along with birth and death > records. Plus, we have added counties previously unavailable in other > online databases and the 1970s microfiche index. Now, you can look for > marriages in counties Richland through Winnebago at the same time you > search for marriages from the rest of the state. > > Marriages, dating between 1836 and September 30, 1907, are indexed by both > the bride and groom names, wherever possible. Therefore, in most cases, > there will be two entries for one marriage; one for the bride and one for > the groom. There are some counties that were not indexed by bride's name, > but our excellent volunteers are working to correct that as well. > > The new marriage index, like its companions, began as a 1970s microfiche > publication. The Schoenleber Foundation of Milwaukee generously provided > funds to convert them to electronic form, so now genealogists have free > public access to information on more than a half a million marriages, > 400,000 Wisconsin deaths, as well as more than 1 million births. > > Happy searching and let us know how everything works. There are bound to > be some errors, but now that the index is in the digital age, fixing index > problems is quite simple (unfortunately, fixing errors on the original > records is still impossible!). > > Best wishes, > Melissa McLimans > Manager, Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service > Wisconsin Historical Society > > > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >