From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Sep 24 16:54:25 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 k8OMsPjb020256; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:54:25 -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 k8OMsNCc020737 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:54:23 -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 k8OKCMFI024933 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:12:22 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8OKCMkg024932 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:12:22 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k8OJtDFI024812 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:55:13 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8OMb4bV018844 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:37:04 -0600 X-Envelope-From: juanita2@cox.net Sun Sep 24 16:37:04 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 k8OMb4jb018833 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:37:04 -0600 Received: from eastrmmtao03.cox.net (eastrmmtao03.cox.net [68.230.240.36]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8OMb13v007187 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 16:37:02 -0600 Received: from eastrmimpo02.cox.net ([68.1.16.120]) by eastrmmtao03.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060924223657.HLHX23863.eastrmmtao03.cox.net@eastrmimpo02.cox.net> for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:36:57 -0400 Received: from DH433L51 ([24.255.150.191]) by eastrmimpo02.cox.net with bizsmtp id SNcc1V00L481DKL0000000 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:36:36 -0400 From: "juanita" To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 17:36:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4516C239.17189.5C1CF1A@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <95b5b6b90609241146q13f21c75k7d12e1c3f738403@mail.gmail.com> References: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.21c) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: marriage certificate info Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com The copy of the 1835 marriage certificate I mentioned in my previous e-mail that I found in a Civil War pension file from the National Archives was one for my great grandfather. Both he and his youngest son were in the Civil War with the Illinois troops. The father tried to get a pension based on his own 3-yrs. military service but was denied. He later filed for a dependent's pension based on his son's military service. The son was 20 yrs. old, unmarried, and had lived with his father until they both enlisted. He provided part of his father's livelihood and it was on that basis the US Gov't. granted the father a pension after the son was killed in the war. The son was killed two weeks before the end of the war. By the time the father was granted the pension he was crippled with arthritis and unable to work. He died a few years later in the Soldiers Home in Milwaukee. The father had to provide proof to the Gov't. that he and the son's mother was married and he contacted the Catholic Church in Buffalo NY where they'd married, for verification. It was that Certificate that was included in the pension file I received from NARA....it was part of the file, along with other documents proving that both of them had been in the war. juanita > The National Archives will not have marriage records unless there is > something in a military pension file as proof of a marriage so that a > widow could collect pension benefits. Early marriage records were > either kept by church or County courthouses but Local State Archives > are usually the route to try. The National Archives is where you will > find historical and military records. > > http://www.archives.gov/ > > On 9/24/06, Sugarfoot1@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > What is the web address for the National Archives that you used? > > I'm having a terrible time finding some marriage certificate > > information! Thanks! > > > > > -- > Kathie Harrison > Family Trees Grow with Love > Ancestral Whispers > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~irishrose/ >