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According to the Freedom of Information Act of 1966, you have the right to view the marriage licence records of any individual as long as you follow the correct protocol. This freedom may be useful to you in many different circumstances.
You may need to view marriage license information if you are doing genealogical searches. For many years, marriage information was considered to be a part of church records. Then, as state and county governments improved, couples were required to obtain a marriage license before the ceremony. The record of this license is a record of a legal marriage. Therefore, even if you know where those relatives were married, there may not be an official record of their marriage.
Today, most states require the couple to make application for the marriage license at the local courthouse. There may be a three-day waiting period before the license becomes valid. Other states may not have the waiting period or may wave the waiting period for out of state applicants. In at least one state, wedding officiates that have been approved by the state can both issue the marriage license and perform the wedding at the same time.
What if there is no license for great-grandma and great- grandpa. Were they never legally married? That depends on how long ago they were married and where they lived. Some state established common-law marriages. The couple would simply present themselves as husband and wife and were legally married with no license. Most would then have a ceremony when the circuit riding preacher made it back to the area and some never bought the license. However in the common law states, the couple was married by common law without marriage license records ever being established.
Marriage license records may help you to prove a missing link in your genealogy, as most include the name of the couple’s parents.
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