Missing images in image group 004542886
Part of Madison county, Kentucky Marriage Bonds missing.
Image Group #004542886 is Madison. Marriage Bonds 1804-1806.
Madison. Marriage Bonds 1804–1806
The Metadata says this is Marriage Bonds 1804-1806 and that it includes Files 5-6. The images appear to contain only File 5.
The Kentucky microfilm reel is 183305 as shown on the first image of the collection.
Ancestry.com shows this microfilm reel as containing Marriage Bonds 1804-1808. A review of the bond years available on FamilySearch is missing the 1807-1808 bonds.
The microfilm.ky.gov website also shows this roll of film as a Bond Book from 1804-1808:
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
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@Sheryl S I think it is an error in the metadata date coverage, as this film does contain marriage bonds for 1807-1808. https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/record/results?count=100&q.filmNumber=004542886&q.marriageLikeDate.from=1807&q.marriageLikeDate.to=1808
The records are not in chronological order so it's hard to tell what might be missing. However, in doing a search of this film on Ancestry for the year 1808 I did not find any that were not also on FamilySearch.
If your research finds something different, let me know.
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There are pages of ministers returns mixed in with these bonds and they do include 1807 and some 1808 returns.
The majority of bonds are not there for 1807 and 1808. I have gone page by page through the whole set of images on FamilySearch and there are definitely images missing. I have a copy of a marriage bond that I copied at the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives for 1807 that is not included in the FS image collection.
I would like to see if it is possible to pull that roll of microfilm to see if File 6 is on the roll and if it was missed during digitization.
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@Sheryl S
You may find this article helpful: https://www.familysearch.org/en/library/microfilm-microfiche-and-CDs
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Thank you. I have sent an email to that group.
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I see what you mean. The records are in packets or folders for each couple, with other loose pages mentioning records of differing dates. If you follow just the packets, they do indeed end at 1806.
When comparing with what is on Ancestry, only the actual bonds/marriages are shown. They leave off the packet covers, but it does appear that they are also missing all of 1807 and 1808. If both Ancestry and FamilySearch images originated from the same microfilm, I would guess the omission in filming occurred at the archive. Just a hunch…..
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