County Marriage Records

Question by jr_2281: Where can I find marriage records of someone?
I’m trying to find out if someone I know is married. I have her maiden name. Can i look it up for free?

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Answer by Nothingusefullearnedinschool
HISTORICAL records are available at various public libraries, such as the NYCL. They are also available at many state archival libraries and historica/genealogical societies.

Modern-day records would be found at the State & local levels, such as courthouses.

In most places your could look them up for free; copies would cost you.

And, you would need to be someone who has a legal right to look at such records.

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Marriage records nowadays are available as an important public service and it is public information in almost all states. A typical marriage public record includes, name of the couple, information about their parents and witnesses. There are various alternatives to free marriage record searches. The various sources of central government agency are available to search for marriage records. Actually the marriage information prior to their records centralization is only retrievable at a specific county where the marriage was registered.

The other alternatives of free marriage certificate record search are commercial operators and internet. Commercial operators are a more viable option to lookup marriage records in comparison to using the internet to search online marriage records information. There are various websites available which help in searching for marriage licenses and records but usually these sites are not considered valuable as many sites are prone to viruses and spyware. Also the information available on these sites which gives you free access to records is raw and incomplete.

Nowadays people have more at their disposal if we were to compare with the earlier generations. The main difference is because of the use of internet. On the internet you can possibly get marriage record information free of cost, however, these sites may give you inaccurate information. Online public records like marriage public records are easy to retrieve. Earlier it was hectic to retrieve these records because to get these records meant you needed to hire costly lawyers or professional investigators. Gaining access to this vital information now is within a click of a mouse.

Question by Justin W: Can someone with an Ancestry.com account look something up for me?
I just can’t seem to find my great grandmother anywhere I look.
Her name is Elizabeth Sadler, she was born in Tennessee around 1906, married Carl Carter in 1923 in Tennessee, and had a son Carl Carter in 1924. She also may have been in Ohio around the time of the 1930 census. I am mainly curious to find information on who her parents were if at all possible? I found her marriage record on Ancestry.com, but without an account I can’t see any of the information it contains or a picture of the document.
If someone could help I would really appreciate it as this is the main roadblock I have hit in compiling my family tree so far.
Thank you!
Also her middle initial is T
I do not know of when she died or the location. The furthest I can trace her is to Lucas County, Ohio in 1930 with my great grandfather and my grandfather. I have heard stories about how she was abandoned by her husband and that she eventually remarried to a man with the last name Tooker, but other than that I don’t know very much about her.
Claude Carter is his younger brother so it’s the right one. I did hear stories in the family that my grandfather was given to another family to live as a child so that might explain his being absent in that census.
Both of her parents were born in Tennessee which eliminates Myrtle Hawk being the mother as she was born in Alabama.
I’m fairly certain it’s the wrong Sadler family altogether. I’m going based off of my grandfather’s death certificate as well as a marriage license from Williamson County that her last name was Sadler.
I just feel that I don’t have enough information to trust a census and a gravestone about the identity of her parents and start following that branch backwards. I’m simply trying to get the information contained in certain documents that show up on ancestry.com that I know are about her to possibly uncover some leads.

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Answer by wendy c
HouseholdGenderAge
Parent William F Sadler M 47y
Parent Sissie Sadler F 49y
Gore L Sadler M 19y
Elizabeth A Sadler F 14y
Roseman F Sadler F 13y
Bill F Sadler M 12y
Charity Martin F 29y
you might be surprised at what www.familysearch.org has for free. This family is in Jackson co, Tenn in 1920. You still would want to cross check against something such as a death cert.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dnj87&id=I19390

this family file seems to match the above William F Sadler, since it is the right year and county. It does not include the children of William and his wife.

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she was the only Elizabeth Sadler born in 1906. It could be wrong, and the census might also have a transcription problem.
When/ where did she die? do you have an obit, hopefully with names of siblings?

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I am trying to find my mother-in-laws marriage records and there seems to be no way that I can find them for free . I assume they are public records and I do not want to pay for them

Are marriage licenses public information?

Okay, so I need records for these people. Once you have the record, it would really benefit me if you could save it to your computer and upload it to something like filedropper.com or even email it to me, cause I am doing my family tree with documentation only. Thank you

Flander Cothern
Birth: Around 1902
Birth Location: Georgia, USA
Marriage: Alva McDonald
Marriage Date: 1930
Death: 1967
Social Security Number: 259-38-7981
Death Location: Appling County, Georgia, US
Needed Records: Marriage, Death, Birth
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Thomas Calvin Nix
Birth: Jan 1897(Georgia)
Marriage: Beulah Luke
Death: Feb 1973 (Georgia)
Records Needed: Birth, Death, Marriage

Thank you.
If I am asking too much with sending the files to me. Please put the information of the file, so I can get it when I can.

I need to find some info. on a couple of ancestors and would appreciate if someone would do a lookup for me on ancestry.com. I am trying to find John Jones, spouse Elizabeth Mosley in the birth, marriage and death records. I’m looking for thier marriage and they were born about 1803 and m. about 1821 in TN. I see ancestry has one answer come up that says John Elizabeth Jones Mosley and then beneath it has two separate spouses listed as John Mosey and Eizabeth Jones. That entry is for Tennessee marriages to 1825. I’d like that one. Also, down the list there are several John Mosleys m. Elizabeth Jones in Carter Co and it says it is for TN marriages from 1780-2002, and I’d like those, also. And then I’d like a search of the censuses on site for Green Mosley and when you get results, click for the 1870′s list. It will bring up a Green Marley and underneath it in brackets it says Green Mosley. He is listed in the 1870 Perry KY census. There are a couple more Mosley lookups I’d like. I know it’s a lot to ask, but would appreciate it. Henry Moseley of Hawkins Co., Tennesseee in the 1830′s census. One will show up that has that spelling local, and date. Then there is a Henry Mosley spelled as such, in the 1830 census list for Hawkins Co., but it will say by the name that it’s 1799. And TN census from 1810-91. I also want William Moseley Hawkins Co. TN 1830′s. He will show up as such. And a William Mosely 1830′s Hawkins Co. TN whop will show on the 1810-91 census as being there in 1799. Thank you so much. First person to respond to all of the above (or whoever tells me the most) gets 10 points.