1840's marriage certificate?

Question:I have in my possession an 1840's original marriage certificate that is not connected with my family and also the death certificate for one of those on this marriage certificate. I would like to find a living relative to pass them on to. Where is the best place to advertise them. Thank you in advance.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I have in my possession an 1840's original marriage certificate that is not connected with my family and also the death certificate for one of those on this marriage certificate. I would like to find a living relative to pass them on to. Where is the best place to advertise them. Thank you in advance.

These are the same answers others have suggested, but with links.

Go to

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.c...

Enter the husband's name and the wife's name in "Spouse". If you see a little blue child's head, the person who has them has at least one of their children. Click on the husband's name. Click on "Descendnancy". If it is long, with a lot of "Living Smith" people in the list, chances are the person who uploaded the data knows a descendant.

(Look at how many individuals the person has in his/her data base, too; if it is over 15,000 or so, they are probably just collectors and don't know any descendants.)

Write to the person who owns the data base or post a post-em on the
individual or both.

These are the two biggest real genealogy boards.
http://boards.ancestry.com/
http://genforum.genealogy.com/

In both, you click down through categories to get to the one you want. They both have boards for surnames and for counties. They both ask you to register, neither spams you. If plan "A", above, doesn't work, try a post on the appropriate surname and county board.

Remember - 15/16ths of your couple's descendants, on average, will have a woman in the line somewhere between GGG Grandpa & Grandma and them, which means the surname changed. That's why you'd post on the county boards.

I would start by calling your local newspaper and news channel. they will probably run a story on it and hopefully someone who knew them might see it. Also, I think the public would like to hear a story like that, and you never know, just doing that might help you find them.

Go to Rootsweb (or USGenWeb) and work your way to the county that is indicated on the documents.

There should be some contacts on that page as to the people/organization maintaining the site for that county. Contact one of them with the information you have and see how they suggest you handle it.

Different counties have different capabilities. But this is incredible information to share and rootsweb/usgenweb is the perfect place to do so.

Also, that particular county may in fact have a board. If so, post your information on that board so if someone is searching for that person, they will know how to get hold of you.

Try places that look into family trees

Also post in the forums on ancestry.com and genealogy.com.

ancestry.com is the leading database provider for genealogy research. It seems like most sites eventually lead back to it. There are Surname forums where you could post as a guest.