Global Genealogy, in its latest e-newsletter, is featuring a new book, A Collection of Lanark County, Ontario Marriage Records 1817-1867, by Peter E. Andersen, that is now available on CD and in PDF. Both formats make it easy to search for names.
The book’s 700 pages of marriage records include more than 80,000 individual names of brides, grooms, and named witnesses who participated in solemnizing approximately 14,000 marriages between 1817 and 1867.
Global Genealogy explains how the digital version of this book is now available:
Nearly three decades ago, Peter Andersen extracted and recorded marriage records from the church registers of a long list of Lanark County churches of various faiths. He also compiled lists of Strays — marriages of Lanark County natives who married outside of the county, or in other churches. Extracts of marriage notifications published in the Lanark Observer newspaper (Lanark Village) have been included in this collection.
Completed long before personal computers were in widespread use, Mr. Andersen used a typewriter to create the records that make up this collection. We scanned the manually typed pages as originally prepared. We have not altered or edited the work.
These seven hundred pages of marriage records have been built into a single searchable digital file that is bookmarked by the name of the source and date range of records contained within each section. (e.g. Perth Presbyterian Church 1817-1857). Being able to search through all 41 sets of records with a single search is especially helpful when you are not sure of where, when, or in which church that a marriage was solemnized. The included pages were originally intended for personal use. Several pages include manual corrections and changes by Mr. Andersen. We’ve left those pages as we found them.
Marriages from churches in the following towns are included in the book:
Almonte
Appleton
Ashton
Beckwith
Bethany
Bathurst
Carleton Place
Clayton
Dalhousie
Darling Township
Drummond
Ferguson’s Falls
Franktown
Lanark
MacDonald’s Corners
Falls and MacDonald’s Corners 1907-1910
Middleville
Montague
Perth
Playfair
Ramsay
Rosetta
Smith’s Falls
Stanleyville
Watson’s Corner’s
For a complete list of churches, prices, and to order, visit Global Genealogy. You will be able to download the PDF version within one business day.
