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Marriage Records KY, TN, NC, & VA (Family Archive CD-ROM #229) |
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Family Archive CD-ROM #229 Marriage Records KY, TN, NC, & VA |
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S67456 |
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| Notes |
- This was my first Family Archive CD-ROM purchase and for what it cost, a great disappointment. It contains the names of bride and groom along with marriage date or marriage bond date. The marriages are organized by state and county. The search engine is useful after you figure out how to apply the wildcard characters. However, that is it.
This CD-ROM is more of a list rather than an index. An index contains a reference to where the listed item can be found; telling me the county where a marriage was recorded is not much of a reference (I knew that much, otherwise why would I buy this particular CD-ROM). I was at least expecting the name of the record in which the marriage was recorded. I had hoped to see page or file numbers as well. There is not any indication whether the date is for the marriage or the bond date or whether it is the date it was recorded; the single date shown could be any of these.
I found a few marriages which might be hints to missing branches, but for the most part, I already knew most of the marriages and this reference cannot be considered proof of my information. In addition, many marriages that I would have expected to find, were not there. I would find a marriage of one sibling listed, but marriages of other siblings about the same time were not listed.
There is no way to sort the list; chronologically, by name, or otherwise. The search results do not display together. The list simply jumps to the next marriage in the full list that matches the search criteria. You have to do a search twice for any given surname, once for the groom and once for the bride. I have found most personal genealogy web sites to be more useful than this CD-ROM. At least with a web site, I usually have some frame of reference in which to make a judgement about future research into the information I find.
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