New York State Marriage Records

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New york state marriage records.

Please visit nyc gov cupid to begin your virtual marriage license process. Registered user s comments about our marriage database. The indexes cover the entire state outside of new york city and start in june 1880 deaths or 1881 marriages and births birth indexes are made available after 75 years marriage and death indexes after 50 years. New york state briefly kept marriage records from 1847 to about 1850 and started recording marriages again in 1881.

All offices of the city clerk nyc marriage bureau remain closed to the general public until further notice. Birth indexes have been made available through 1937 only an index entry states only the name of the person date and place of event and state certificate number. A few records may be earlier or later. Name index to marriage records from the state of new york.

If you re seeking a birth marriage or death record for an ancestor in one of those locations before 1914 click the name of each municipality for tips on. My late stepmother was an irish but she was born in india and my late father always hid this secret from me without marriagerecordsonline us i would have never known this secret in my entire life many thanks. Yes in most states a basic marriage license log or marriage license index is considered to be public information even if the actual certificates or licenses may have strict privacy rules under the state s vital records laws. It does not have records for marriage licenses purchased in all of new york state except new york city which includes the five boroughs.

New york county manhattan kings county brooklyn bronx county the bronx richmond county staten island and queens county queens contact. Doh keeps divorce certificates for both new york state and new york city. Microfilm copies of these records are available at the family history library and family history centers. Copies of all records can obtained from the town or city of birth or by contacting the state archives.

The year range represents most of the records. Marriage licenses are available exclusively on project cupid. New york city department of health and mental hygiene or new york city marriage bureau. State coverage for albany buffalo and yonkers does not begin until 1914.

New york state vital records. Due to privacy laws recent records may not be displayed. Certified marriage records are available to the bride groom those with a documented proper or judicial purpose and those with a court order. For new york city records.

New york city keeps marriage records separately from new york state. Marriage ceremonies must continue to be arranged through private marriage officiants. The new york state department of health may be contacted by phone at 518 474 3075. About marriage records in new york new york marriage records are managed by the vital records section of new york department of health for most of the state from 1881 to present.