Perform a free georgia public marriage records search including marriage licenses certificates registries and indexes.
Georgia marriage records index.
Marriage records in georgia.
Serving as evidence of a name change for the involved parties legitimation purposes genealogical research divorce proceedings.
Beginning in 1805 georgia law required marriages to be recorded in the court of ordinary now known as the probate court.
Marriages 1996 to present edit edit source.
Marriage records are great sources for genealogists because they document an individual in a particular place and time as well as provide details about that person s marriage.
Although an index of divorce records is available through the division of public health actual divorce records must be obtained from the clerk of the superior court in the county where the divorce was finalized.
Currently there are no online indexes to georgia marriage records for the period 1996 to the present.
Marriage certificate information search yields insight into various areas of genealogy research.
A collection of marriages that took place in georgia between 1851 and 1900.
It is important that you use the information found in this database to locate your ancestor in the original records that this index references.
This database contains marriage information from selected areas of the state of georgia usa up to 1850.
It is used for.
Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed.
Marriage records for most georgia counties except where records were destroyed by fire or other.
Georgia compiled marriages 1851 1900.
Copies of marriage records before 1952 and after 1996 can be obtained from the probate court where the marriage occurred.
A few records may be earlier or later.
The information contained in such record index serves as the most fundamental resource for the family tree researchers.
Georgia marriages 1811 through 1820.
More and more data and specifics now can be availed through cobb county marriage records index.
The year range represents most of the records.
A marriage application and or certificate is an official recording of a couple s marriage.
The state office of vital records provides certified copies of marriage applications certificates and verifications.
Microfilm copies of these records are available at the family history library and familysearch centers.
1996 to the present records are held exclusively by the probate court in the county where the marriage occurred.
Each entry includes groom bride marriage date county and state.
