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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: NC Bradford marriages
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 22:17:15 -0700 (PDT)

Hi all! Remember a few months ago me asking for people to send me their
Bradford lines from NC? Well, as I've been working on that database and trying
to sort out families, an idea hit me. Why not try to verify the marriages with
marriage records at the archives in Raleigh (Where I live)?? So that's what I
did. I now have entered marriage record info (county, date, bond # if
available, witnesses, bondsman, etc.) into the database so if you have a
Bradford ancestor from NC, send me an email and I'll look it up in the
database. The only info that is available for every single record is the
county where the marriage bond was file or wedding took place. Almost all give
a date, this is usually the date of the bond, not necessarily the marriage day
itself, althought the marriage was usually pretty close to the bond date. I
think there were 2 or 3 without the date, only the county was given. Most give
the witness and bondsman. Some give the ministers who preformed the weddings.


About the database I have, i don't have all the lines sorted out. what I'm
trying to do is find sources for individuals who were submitted to me. Some of
these are birth, some death, some are names found in county history books, such
as Early Families of Edgecombe County that was compiled in 1920 by the Tarboro
genealogy society.

With this being my last year of school, I don't know how much time I'll be able
to work on this and how long it's going to take me, but any of you are always
free to ask me to lookup an NC Bradford or submit info (cite your sources if
you have them - it saves me from finding a source).

What I hope to do eventually is put that information on the website, but that
could be a while before something like that is done, and if you don't want me
to do that with info you submitted, that is fine. When you submit something, I
make a note in the sources who submitted it so I will take out anything with
your name/email in the sources, and also when I get closer to getting the
database "done" (is genealogy ever done?!?!? hehe), I'll email everyone who
submitted info so they have an opportunity to tell me not to put theirs up.
I'm guessing that this won't be close to finished before I graduate in May, so
no rush.

Erin
List manager

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Erin Bradford

List manager
http://www.ncalhn.org
ALHN County Coordinator for multiple NC Counties
http://www.gendepository.com (the Genealogy Depository-Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, and Kern)

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