BRIDE AND GROOM INDEXES
			  MARRIAGES OF VALLEY COUNTY IDAHO, 1889 - 1947

			Compiled by: Bea Snyder and Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D.

				Valley County Genealogical Society
				   Valley County History Project
					 Cascade, Idaho 1997

	Submitted for use of the USGenWeb Project and IDGenWeb Project Archives 
			  by Wesley W. Craig, 04 January 1997.


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			BACKGROUND EXPLANATION TO BRIDE AND GROOM INDEXES

The following sources were extracted to provide the data for both the bride and groom marriage
indexes for Valley County:

1. Boise County Marriage Abstracts (Book 1 and Book 2) for the period 1899 - 1912 
   (Idaho History Library, 979.674, V22M). These comprise the earliest period of recorded 
   marriages prior to the organization of Valley County in 1917.

2. Boise County Marriages 1912 - 1917, were extracted from the Salt Lake City, Utah 
   Family History Center Library Microfilm No. 1420898.

3. Valley County Marriage Register 1917 - 1947. These were extracted from the Salt Lake City,
   Utah, Family History Center Library Microfilm No. 1502885, and from the original records 
   in the Valley County Building in Cascade, Idaho.

It should be noted that for the period beginning in 1948 up to the present, all vital statistics 
information, including marriages, are kept by the Idaho Deparment of Vital Statistics in Boise, 
Idaho. These records are not accessible, given privacy restrictions, for indexing for public 
purposes.

The extraction of the Valley County Marriage Register was accomplished by the voluntary efforts 
of members of the Valley County Genealogical Society under the direction of Bea Snyder. 

Bear in mind that additional information may be found in the original marriage records, including 
(in some instances) the place of birth of both parties, ages, prior marriage, divorce and race. 	

Although the process of extracting these records and transcribing them into the present format 
has been closely monitored, like all such documents, there may be some errors. For legal 
purposes the original documents should be consulted. Where errors are noted we would appreciate 
it if you would advise the Valley County Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 606, Cascade, Idaho, so 
subsequent editions of this collection might be so corrected.

For further genealogical information about Valley County we recommend the following publications:

1. Early Pioneers/Settlers in Valley County Idaho, 1870 - 1920: An Index. 
   Compiled by: Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D., 1997. 147pp.
	
2. Surname Indexes to the Cemetery and Burial Records of Valley County Idaho, 1878 - 1995. 
   Compiled by: Bea Snyder and Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D. 1997. 94 pp. 

3. Valley County, Idaho: Surname Index and Selected Information from the 1920 Federal Population 
   Census. Compiled by Wesley W. Craig, Ph.D. and Bea Snyder.1996. 52 pp.

		Copies of these publications may be ordered by writing:

			Valley County Genealogical  Society
			P.O. Box 606
			Cascade, ID 83611


To review the alphabetical marriage indexes, please return to the Valley County Table of Contents.