Illinois Marriage Records Online After 1900

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Illinois marriage records online after 1900.

1800 1940 illinois county marriage records ancestry. Usa 1 111 104 illinois 47 717 illinois marriage records 1 825 statewide marriage records. Illinois marriages 1790 1860 ancestry. On the illinois marriage certificate it should have both the maiden name and the married names.

1860 1920 illinois marriage index ancestry. Certified copies are only available at the county clerk in the county where the marriage occurred see resources in the right hand column and click on list of county clerks. Illinois marriages 1763 1900 myheritage. Some illinois county clerks cook champaign lake kane kankakee have their own genealogy websites with indexes to county records and the option to purchase official copies not all illinois birth marriage and death records have been indexed.

About marriage records in illinois illinois marriage records are managed by the illinois department of public health division of vital records and the county clerk s office. This site does not support the current version of your web browser. An official record may exist even if not found in the databases mentioned below. Marriage records are not kept by the illinois department of public health division of vital records.

Illinois death certificates database 1916 1950 illinois state archives. Since 1985 the illinois state genealogical society isgs has cooperated with the illinois state archives to create an index to illinois marriages occurring prior to 1901. The division of vital records can verify the facts of a marriage that has taken place from 1962. Marriage records were the first vital records kept by illinois counties typically commencing with the formation of the county and continuing through the present.

View a list of counties and date spans included in the illinois statewide marriage index. More information about how to obtain copies of original marriage records. Data entry has been done by archives staff and volunteers working on mainframe terminals at the illinois. Illinois statewide marriage index 1763 1900 illinois state archives.

Illinois marriages 1815 1935 family search. Additional records will be added as they are completed. A minimum of the first two letters of the decedent s last name are. Enter the decedent s last name or the decedent s last name in combination with the first name or the first name and middle name or initial in the appropriate search fields.

No single website covers all records for all counties.