Good news...Monroe County has been added to the WISCONSIN MARRIAGES database at Ancestry. This database is =free for everyone= until 12/7/00. Click on the URL below to access the database... Best wishes, Bonnie Ancestry Daily News wrote: > snip > > WISCONSIN MARRIAGES, 1854-1900 (Grant, Jackson, and Monroe counties) > > Originally settled as a center for traders, the first large-scale > immigration into Wisconsin began in the 1820s, due to an increase in > mining in the southern areas of the territory. This database is a > collection of marriage records from Grant, Jackson, and Monroe > counties between 1854 and 1900. Taken from microfilm copies of > original county documents, each record provides spouses' names, > marriage date, and county of residence. The database contains the > names of more than 28,000 men and women. > > Source Information: Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. "Wisconsin > Marriages, 1854-1900." [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, > 2000. Original data: See the Extended Description at the Web address > below for original data sources listed by county. > > To search this database, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/inddbs/5230.htm snip > Please feel free to circulate this newsletter to other genealogy > enthusiasts! We hope that you will also credit the Daily News > (http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/) as the source. To subscribe to > this newsletter, visit http://www.ancestry.com and type your e-mail > address in the box provided, or send an e-mail message to: > mailto:[email protected] with the word > "subscribe" in the subject line. For comments or submissions to the > Daily News, e-mail: mailto:[email protected] The editorial > staff regrets that it cannot respond to every e-mail or assist with > personal research, but it will periodically feature letters to the > editor in the Daily News. Ancestry.com reserves the right to edit for > content and clarity. > ____________________________________________________________________ > > Ancestry > http://www.ancestry.com > Sales: 1-800-ANCESTRY > Customer Solutions: 801-431-5220 > Fax: (801) 426-3501 > E-mail: mailto:[email protected] > ============================================================ -- Bonnie (Gallagher) Gilson, Phoenix, AZ, USA mailto:[email protected] http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~bgilson/