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From: "Chad Frisby" <>
Subject: [SOWERS-L] Fw: Illinois Marriages 1763-1900
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:19:10 -0500


Thought I would pass this on to you. This Marriage index is wonderful...I
typed in the name Sowers and got a long list....Barbara from Kansas




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----- Original Message -----
From: Nadine Holder <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Illinois Marriages 1763-1900


> Just a tip on the Illinois marriage records - it can be a timesaver to put
> in say the first three letters of a bride or groom's surname (or however
> many letters you are sure of) - that way you will get all the alternate
> possible spellings. Takes some patience to wade through them but pure
gold
> is usually the result!
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:03 AM
> Subject: Illinois Marriages 1763-1900
>
>
> > Thanks Susie Whatley for this great site! Been waiting on it for a long
> time.
> >
> > Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
> > An Ongoing Project of the Illinois State Archives &
> > the Illinois State Genealogical Society
> >
> > http://www2.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/marriage
> >
> > This project IS as it says, ongoing (incomplete). This Index takes
> > patience and fortitude. Similar spellings are not grouped together.
> Exact
> > spelling as it appears in the record is required. A problem when one
has
> > found 17 variations of a surname spelling (and there may be others).
Then
> > you have to check the surname for both bride and groom. Complain,
> complain.
> > Just can't make everybody happy.
> >
> > There is one for EARLY Indiana, but only to 1850, Complain, complain.
> > However, the records are more easily accessible.
> >
> > http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/indiana/genealogy/mirr.html
> >
> > Does anyone know of other state marriage records online? I need
something
> > else to complain about. LOL
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

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