Tips on using the illinois statewide marriage index.
Illinois marriage records online after 1900.
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.
View a list of counties and date spans included in the illinois statewide marriage index.
A minimum of the first two letters of the decedent s last name are.
Illinois marriages 1763 1900 myheritage.
Additional records will be added as they are completed.
An official record may exist even if not found in the databases mentioned below.
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.
The division of vital records can verify the facts of a marriage that has taken place from 1962.
Illinois marriages 1790 1860 ancestry.
Marriage records are not kept by the illinois department of public health division of vital records.
Illinois statewide marriage index 1763 1900 illinois state archives.
More information about how to obtain copies of original marriage records.
1800 1940 illinois county marriage records ancestry.
1860 1920 illinois marriage index ancestry.
Marriage records were the first vital records kept by illinois counties typically commencing with the formation of the county and continuing through the present.
This database contains an index to over 1 2 million marriages from 1930 1960 for cook county illinois.
Marriage and divorce records must be obtained in the circuit court in the county where the event occurred.
Data entry has been done by archives staff and volunteers working on mainframe terminals at the illinois.
Today more than one million marriages or two million names are included in the illinois statewide marriage index.
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.
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.
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.
On the illinois marriage certificate it should have both the maiden name and the married names.
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No single website covers all records for all counties.
