Alabama County Marriages, 1818-1936 - FamilySearch Historical Records

United States Alabama 

What is in the Collection?
This collection is an index to selected county marriage records in Alabama for the years 1818-1936. Due to privacy restrictions, we cannot publish the images associated with these indexes at this time.

What Can these Records Tell Me?
This collection may contain the following information:


 * Names of bride and groom
 * Year of marriage
 * Reference number

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What Do I Do Next?
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I Found Who I was Looking for, What Now?

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 * Use the information to find additional family members. Witnesses or bondsmen were usually relatives.
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family.
 * Church Records often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900.

I Can’t Find Who I’m Looking for, What Now?

 * Try viewing the original record to see if there were errors in the transcription of the name, age, residence, etc. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name.
 * Collect entries for every person who has the same surname. This list can help you identify possible relations that can be verified by records.
 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby locality in an area search.
 * Standard spelling of names typically did not exist during the periods our ancestors lived in. Try variations of your ancestor’s name while searching the index or browsing through images.
 * Remember that sometimes individuals went by nicknames or alternated between using first and middle names. Try searching for these names as well.
 * Search the indexes and records of Alabama, United States Genealogy.
 * Search in the Alabama Archives and Libraries.

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