Received the file this morning. A quick check says they look good.
Thank you,
Myron E. Williams
Crossville, TN
Don Cordell wrote:
I have the 1850=1880, 1880-1920 marriages as text files and some of
the
birth records, plus some death records. In the marriage records for
Orange Co, bear in mind that part of the original records were called
the suppliment file, which lists the marriage participant and who the
parents were, but not who the spouse was, I sit there comparing what
book and page and date this occurred so I can figure out who the spouse
was, then I can also see who the parents of the bride and groom were. I
can send any of you who want these files for free. I use an old DOS
program called XTree to view the files but you can open them in Word as
a txt file if you want, which is not a great idea because Word uses
spacing for different space for letter such as the spacing for i versus
W or M, so the columns are not easily defined in Word. If you have any
old DOS program to open the files such as the old Wordstar you get
better results, or I can also send you a file for XTree that last was
sold back in 1994. These are the actual WPA typed pages and it becomes
obvious soon that typing errors existed, and that the clerk often
entered the name as they thought is was pronounced. Soon tho you read
into what you realize is the actual intended name. Now some of the files
are as long as 1800 pages so these cover a lot of information.
If any of you want these, I'll send them to you, if you have dial up it
may take some time to receive.
Don Cordell
Barbara McReynolds wrote:
>Somehow I have missed the start of this discussion, so I may be jumping to
>the wrong conclusions, but, I have a CD put out by one of the predecessors
>of Genealogical Publishing, which had all of Orange county marriages listed
>as having taken place in Clarke County. I know for a fact that they were
>incorrect, because I have copies of the originals taken from the Orange
>County Marriage records. I contacted the company about the problem, but
>doubt that they corrected it. It is my belief that they incorrectly listed
>them, as opposed to a license being issued in each county, because there
>were no Orange County Records on the entire CD, and according to the cover,
>there should have been.
>Barbara
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