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Title: Restored Hamilton County Marriages Supplement 1850-1884
Indexed
by Jeffrey G. Herbert, Hamilton County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society,
Cincinnati, Ohio 2002.
Description: 188 p. ; 28 cm.
Cataloging Information:
Topical subject: Marriage records--Ohio--Cincinnati.
Topical subject: Marriage records--Ohio--Hamilton County.
Geographic term: Cincinnati (Ohio)--Genealogy.
Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton co. Call #: 929.377177 qH536r4, 2002
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Salt Lake City Family History Library Information: Format Book Language: English
FHL US/CAN Call Number: 977.177 V2hjg
FHL US/CAN Film 2366753 Item 3
"This supplemental index contains more than 4800 marriages that occurred in Hamilton County between 1850 and 1884.
The source of information for this index is Hamilton County, Ohio, church marriage registers
that were kept by the individual priests and ministers for their particular churches"
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Includes: an alphabetic index of Grooms(p. 1-96) and alphabetic index to Brides (p. 97-188).
Example:
Abrams, John Kremling, Mary
18 Jan. 1883 RRR
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Introduction from published book:
It is important that the user of this index take a few minutes to read this introduction in order to get the most
from this index, and to understand why a name may not be found, or if it is found, where to find additional information.
In many cases, no restoration work is ever really completed. A point of diminishing returns usually is established based
on effort and funding. This was also the case when the first in the series of Restored Hamilton County, Ohio, Marriages
was published in 1994. Prior to that time, I had worked on gathering marriage data from newspaper and church records for
a period of almost three years, when I felt that I had gathered the existing records that were permitted to be included
in the index for the years 1870—1884. Soon thereafter, however, I found additional churches and newspapers that had more
marriages. As I worked on restoring data concerning marriages from earlier periods during successive volumes of the
Restored Hamilton County, Ohio, Marriages series, certain churches had new pastors who were willing to let the records
from their churches be indexed. These were included in the volume that was currently being worked on, but as time
progressed, I began to accumulate a significant amount of marriages that were not included in the original volumes
when they were published. This supplemental volume is intended to give the researcher access to these additional marriages
that occurred in Hamilton County, Ohio, before 1884 and that were not included in the various original volumes.
As with the original Restored Hamilton County, Ohio, Marriages series, there is no guarantee that all of the marriages that
occurred before 1884 have been included in the indexes. This series is an attempt to reconstruct as many of the original
marriage records as possible that were destroyed by the fire at the Hamilton County Courthouse in March of 1884.
This supplemental index contains more than forty-eight hundred marriages that occurred in Hamilton County between 1850 and 1884.
The source of information for this index is Hamilton County, Ohio, church marriage registers that were kept by the individual
priests and ministers for their particular churches. As expected, the quality (both legibility and completeness) of the records
varies greatly from church to church, from minister to minister, and from year to year. In some cases, marriage dates were
recorded along with ages, places of birth, and the names of the parents. In other cases, there were simply two names recorded
with a date. Occasionally the place of birth or the names of the parents of the bride and groom were recorded in the original
marriage record. If this is the case, an asterisk (*) is placed to the right of the code for the church. This will alert the
researcher that extra valuable information can be found in the original source.
Always check alternative spellings when using this or other alphabetical indexes. During this time period, few records, if any,
were kept in English. All of the Roman Catholic churches kept their records in Latin, and the German Evangelical and Lutheran
churches kept their records in German using the old German script, which complicates reading and interpretation of the information
even further. Additional interpretation problems can arise due to bad handwriting, faded ink, yellowing and torn pages,
and incomplete entries. In all cases, the best possible interpretation was used and other sources were consulted, when available,
to double-check a questionable interpretation or fill in missing information.
There may be a great deal of spelling variations in the way a first or last name is spelled.
This might be due to the Americanization of a name after the immigrant lived here for a few years.
Also, the person recording the information might have had a difficulty understanding and writing the name if the
person speaking had a heavy foreign accent. Since many of the first or given names were also recorded in Latin,
this can make translation into English difficult, and can result in several different possibilities for an English
equivalent name. For example, the name Jacob in Latin can be translated into English as either James or Jacob.
The name Joanna in Latin can be translated into English as Johanna, Joanne, Joan or Jane. In addition, some common
spelling variations are the frequent interchangeability of the letters C and K, e.g., Carl/Karl, which can be either
an English name, or translated into English as the equivalent name Charles. German immigrants typically had two or three
given names, which could be recorded in any particular order in a given entry. In many cases also, only one or two of
the given names were recorded due to space considerations on the page.
Note: in the online index, the German letters are sorted with the English.
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