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From: "Thomas Murray" <>
Subject: Re: [Hamilt'n] Parish Records
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 18:35:25 -0400
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Lynn Symeon,
29th St. in Oakley - St. Ceclia's parish.
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Subject: Re: [Hamilt'n] Parish Records


> I too am trying to decide if the $25 Archdiocese Archive fee will be worth
> the time, effort and money to find my grandmother's marriage certificate.
> She was married in 1914 and I have had no luck trying to get the marriage
> license from the court house. I found her living with her parents on 29th
> St. in Oakley in the 1910 census, so I printed a list of all the Catholic
> Churches that might have been in that area from the site
> http://www2.eos.net/dajend/parish.html. and began to call each one.
>
> I must say that everyone who answered the phone calls were extremely
> courteous. Out of six Parishes, four looked up their marriage records
while
> I waited on the phone. At one Parish, I believe a priest answered the
phone,
> looked for the record and expressed his disappointment when he couldn't
find
> the record. Two other Parishes asked me to call back in two days and they
> would look in their records. No luck!
>
> Interestingly, the last parish I called told me that usually Catholic
> marriage and death records always were sent back to the Parish that the
> Baptism occurred in order to keep all the records together for one person.
>
> I did have my grandmother's Baptismal Certificate from St. Xavier's Church
in
> downtown Cincinnati where the family had formerly lived. In checking
their
> records they found her Baptismal record but there was no Marriage
Certificate
> or any notation of one on the Baptismal record. It was suggested that I
try
> the archives as a last effort.
>
> In reading the Archdiocesan policy on genealogical research on the same
web
> site as above, I had a few questions and called the Archives. Again, a
very
> courteous lady answered my questions and suggested that instead of just
> asking for one record for $25, I wait until I might need other records
> ---------they can search up to eight or ten records in that time. She
> stressed that it could not be eight or ten names, but three records for
three
> names. When I mentioned the date of the marriage record that I needed she
> mentioned that they had no records after 1920 and no marriage or other
> records before 1834 and this information was on their web site---------at
> least she thought it was. I never saw that information on the web site I
was
> using. A search on Google brought me to a different web site which was
also
> for the Cincinnati Archdiocese Archives and the records time frame was not
on
> this one either. Glad I called!
>
> Sorry this has been so long, but thought the information might help
someone
> who is considering using the Archives.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Lynn Symeon in Florida
>
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