The Genealogy Search

My mother is in town visiting Tucson so I sat her down and went over some of her family information.  I asked her when her parents were married, where, and who married them.  Her answer - I have no idea.  They never celebrated an anniversary.  I knew (or hoped) that their marriage was prior to their son William's birth in 1923. I wrote to the counties my grandfather had lived in Indiana, no records.  I wrote to Cook County in Illinois and had a record search performed - no record. I had been running searches for their marriage month after month and put it a side for awhile.  After talking to Mom I ran a search on Ancestry.com today and guess what!  A marriage record for Clara Miottel and William Skibbe in the Cook County Illinois Marriage Indexes, 1914-1942.  The index lists a marriage date of September 14, 1921.  According to Ancestry they posted the marriage records 17 October 2011.  The lesson learned today - run those sea...

Richard Poundstone and Susannah Zeck Marriage Record I located this record at the Cass County Clerk's office in Cass County, Logansport, Indiana.  The record was in Marriage Record Book #3 which covers the records between January 1847 and September 1864.  The license was issued the same day that they were married, 7 February 1861.  They were married by John R. Flyn, a Justice of the Peace.