Marriage Certificates

How do I obtain a birth, death or marriage certificates?

There are plenty of websites available to assist you in finding marriage certificates

When making a request for a copy of marriage certificates, commonly you must provide the following information:
the name of the groom (legal name used at the date of marriage)
the name of the bride (legal name used at the date of marriage)
the date and city of marriage

Marriage Certificates are an invaluable, if not essential tool in the investigation of family trees. The genelogical societies consider marriage certificates as prerequisites in the successful search of those ellusive ancestors. Of course not all ancestors bothered about marriage certificates, which means the search for creditible information is made thatmuch more difficult.

However marriage certificates still remain the most reliable and most accessible documentation as their official recording and storage has been taken very seriously by churches and governments for centuries. The older the marriage certificates, the more difficult they are to find, but not impossible.

Therefore, don't give up on your investigations as one day you will make a discovery in one of those family marriage certificates which will open a treasure of information, and may be if you are really lucky, a pandora's box!

Did you know? Every 16 minutes a couple is married in Minnesota. Every 33 minutes a couple is divorced.