Florida Marriages - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This index is an electronic index for the years 1837 to 1974. This index is not complete for any particular place, region or time period. This collection may include information previously published in the International Genealogical Index or Vital Records Index collections.

Coverage Table and Map
A coverage table for this collection is available is the wiki article Florida Marriages, Coverage Table (FamilySearch Historical Records).

To see a coverage map of FamilySearch's holdings of Florida marriages, click here. For details about the contents of these records and help using them see the wiki article Marriages Vital Record Index Collections (FamilySearch Historical Records).

What Can These Records Tell Me?
Marriage records may possibly contain the following information:
 * The name of bride and groom
 * The date of marriage
 * The place of marriage
 * Witnesses to the marriage and possible relatives

How Do I Search This Collection?
Before searching the collection, it is helpful to know:
 * The name of your ancestor
 * The approximate date of death
 * The place where the death occurred
 * The names of family members and their relationships

What Do I Do Next?
When you have located your ancestor’s marriage record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. These pieces of information may give you new biographical details that can lead you to other records about your ancestors. Add this new information to your records of each family.

I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now?

 * Use the information found in the marriage record to search for the family in census records
 * Search for other vital records, such as birth and death records
 * Use the information to search for land, probate, and other records for the family
 * Search for additional family members in the marriage records

I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now?

 * Look for variant spellings of the surnames
 * Search the indexes and records of nearby localities

Citing This Collection
Citations help you keep track of places you have searched and sources you have found. Identifying you sources helps others find the records you used.

"Florida Marriages, 1837-1974." Database. FamilySearch. http://FamilySearch.org : 28 September 2016. Index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City.
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