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American marriage laws in their social aspects

A digest by Fred Smith Hall, Elisabeth W. Brooke, published 1919. Includes a breakdown of marriage laws by topic and by state.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Presbyterian Records, 1743-1970 $

Original source: Church Registers. Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

BYU Idaho - Special Collections & Family History - Western States Marriage Records Index

Index for marriages in western states, including mostly pre-1900 marriages in Arizona, Idaho and Nevada. Also some counties in California, western Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Utah, eastern Washington, and Wyoming.

Deaths of U.S. Citizens in Foreign Countries

From the earliest days of the republic one of the duties of U.S. consular officers was to report to the Department of State the names of U.S. citizens who died within their consular districts. These death reports commonly provide acceptable documentation in the English language for cases in which satisfactory proof of an American death might be very difficult to obtain in any other form. From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

FamilySearch Wiki - Gretna Greens in the United States

A map and list of places for runaway marriages in the United States.

Free US Birth Records Information

Guide to free online birth and baptismal records, indexes, and transcription sites for the United States.

Public Records Search | Your Encyclopedia for State and County Public Records

A repository of information on how to find public records, categorized by state, record type, and county.

United States Birth Certificates

United States Birth Certificates is a privately owned and operated Birth Certificate expediting company. The birth certificates ordered by our company are certified certificates, complete with raised embossed seals. They are issued by the state from which you are ordering.

VitalChek

Certified copies of birth certificates, death certificates, marriage certificates and other vital records.

vitalrec.com - Vital Records Information

Resources to help you obtain a birth certificate, death record, marriage license and more by mail or online.

Where to Write for Vital Records

From the National Center for Health Statistics, United States

WorldVitalRecords.com - American Marriage Records Before 1699 $

American Marriage Records Before 1699. William Montgomery Clemens. (1926). This interesting compilation contains the marriage records of many of the early colonists of New England, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Its 12,000 recorded marriages constitute a directory of the earliest residents in America. Names are arranged alphabetically in block letters from A to Z with original spelling variants, and information supplied with each entry includes the exact date and place of marriage. This book is an outgrowth of twenty years of research in church records and in national, state, and town archives, and is the brainchild of the compiler of the celebrated North and South Carolina Marriage Records.