Illinois Marriage Records Online After 1900

Usa 1 112 756 illinois 47 791 illinois marriage records 1 825 statewide marriage records.

Illinois marriage records online after 1900.

Marriage records are not kept by the illinois department of public health division of vital records. This information is open for viewing and any member of the public can access or even contribute to them. 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. No single website covers all records for all counties.

An ongoing project by the illinois state archives in collaboration with the illinois state genealogical society compiles all illinois marriages records that occurred prior to 1901. The illinois state archives also holds state wide vital records database where marriage index reports can be possessed dating within 1763 and 1900. The division of vital records can verify the facts of a marriage that has taken place from 1962. In 1985 the state s genealogical society put together information which comprises over 1 million marriages and 2 million names.

If you do not know the county where a couple married after 1962 the division of vital records can search their statewide register and provide the marriage date and county. Illinois marriages 1790 1860 ancestry. Illinois marriages 1763 1900 myheritage. 1860 1920 illinois marriage index ancestry.

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. 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 statewide marriage index 1763 1900 illinois state archives.

Additional records will be added as they are completed. An official record may exist even if not found in the databases mentioned below. Illinois marriages 1815 1935 family search. Today more than one million marriages or two million names are included in the illinois statewide marriage index.

1800 1940 illinois county marriage records ancestry. On the illinois marriage certificate it should have both the maiden name and the married names. Data entry has been done by archives staff and volunteers working on mainframe terminals at the illinois. This site does not support the current version of your web browser.

It currently has in excess of a million pre 1901 data on file dating as far back as 1763.