From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Tue May 2 17:07:31 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k42N7Vjb007602; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:07:31 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k42N7TDF017011 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 17:07:30 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k42KY3FI010578 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 16:34:03 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k42KY3uY010577 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 16:34:03 -0400 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [63.173.235.138]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k42J8GFI010378 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 15:08:16 -0400 Received: from bw-10.mtpinos.com (bw-10.mtpinos.com [127.0.0.1]) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k42LfT8m000539 for ; Tue, 2 May 2006 14:41:29 -0700 Received: (from karen@localhost) by bw-10.mtpinos.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id k42LfSQE000537 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Tue, 2 May 2006 14:41:28 -0700 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k42LFnjb031488; Tue, 2 May 2006 15:15:49 -0600 Received: from whs.wisc.edu (whs.wisc.edu [144.92.129.136]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k42LFiKJ007523; Tue, 2 May 2006 15:15:44 -0600 Received: from shsw-MTA by whs.wisc.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 02 May 2006 16:15:39 -0500 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 6.5.4 Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 16:15:11 -0500 From: "Melissa McLimans" To: "Melissa McLimans" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by admin.rootsweb.com id k42LFnjb031488 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Marriages Added to Vital Records Index We at the Wisconsin Historical Society are so excited to announce the addition of marriage records to the Wisconsin Pre-1907 Vital Records Index located at www.wisconsinhistory.org/vitalrecords. That's right; marriages can now be searched along with birth and death records. Plus, we have added counties previously unavailable in other online databases and the 1970s microfiche index. Now, you can look for marriages in counties Richland through Winnebago at the same time you search for marriages from the rest of the state. Marriages, dating between 1836 and September 30, 1907, are indexed by both the bride and groom names, wherever possible. Therefore, in most cases, there will be two entries for one marriage; one for the bride and one for the groom. There are some counties that were not indexed by bride's name, but our excellent volunteers are working to correct that as well. The new marriage index, like its companions, began as a 1970s microfiche publication. The Schoenleber Foundation of Milwaukee generously provided funds to convert them to electronic form, so now genealogists have free public access to information on more than a half a million marriages, 400,000 Wisconsin deaths, as well as more than 1 million births. Happy searching and let us know how everything works. There are bound to be some errors, but now that the index is in the digital age, fixing index problems is quite simple (unfortunately, fixing errors on the original records is still impossible!). Best wishes, Melissa McLimans Manager, Wisconsin Genealogical Research Service Wisconsin Historical Society