In case you have not heard, Illinois marriages prior to 1900 are now searchable online. Entering Sinclair as the groom turned up more than 30 marriages. URL is: http://www2.sos.state.il.us/cgi-bin/marriage Best to all, Chris [ This is the Sinclair family discussion list, sinclair@mids.org [ To get off or on the list, see http://www.mids.org/sinclair/list.html