I just returned from Logansport this weekend. They have a marriage index by
name. Then they have the actual marriage books, which depending on the year
the couple married could contain little more than their names, who married
them and when, or as much as parent information, were they married before,
etc.
When it comes to record keeping Logansport did much better than a lot of
counties I have been to.
----- Original Message -----
From: <Moonnstars1900(a)aol.com>
To: <INCASS-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: [INCASS] marriage cert info in late 1800s
In a message dated 7/12/2005 5:57:23 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,
jacqistevens(a)comcast.net writes:
If a
marriage cert would even identify the church where the marriage took
place,
maybe I could find the answer in a FHC microfilm for that church, so if
anyone has info on what's contained on marriage certs, even this little
bit
would help.
Jacqi, the FHC has microfilms of Cass County marriage records for the
time
period you list.
The index film is
Marriage record index, A-Z, 1850-1920 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1993181 Items
2-4
]
The film with the year on it is:
Marriage record, v. 4-5 1864-1874 Marriage record, v. 6 (to p. 290)
1874-1877 - FHL US/CAN Film [ 1987535 ]
You can see the marriage record on the film and find out if the church is
listed. My great grandparents record lists the officiating minister and
the
church he was affiliated with. Also you can tell if the transcription was
incorrect. Believe me that is a common occurrence in the WPA indexes.
In the
death indexes the transcriber changed a Th to an S on my grandmother's
sister
turning her from Thelma to Selma. So a fancy F might have been misread
as an F.
Michelle
researching Smith, Mader, Huffman, Gehring, Lehmkuler (Limecooley) in Cass
County
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