Texas, Grimes County, Marriage Records - FamilySearch Historical Records

What is in This Collection?
This collection consist of marriage records from Grimes County covering August 29, 1951 to October 18th, 1966 volumes 18 & 19.

What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records: • 2

How Do I Search This Collection?
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 * The location or date of the event

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

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 * Use the age or estimated birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, marriage, and death records. (Make sure that if it’s a marriage article, you take the word marriage out, if it’s a birth article, take the word birth out, etc.)
 * Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
 * Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses. Witnesses were usually family members
 * Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family

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

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 * If you cannot locate your ancestor in the locality in which you believe they lived, then try searching records of a nearby town or county
 * Try different spellings of your ancestor’s name

Research Helps
The following articles will help you in your research for your family in the state of Texas.
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Family History Library Holdings

 * Marriage records, 1848-1960
 * Texas, Grimes County, marriage records, 1951-1966

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * Texas Marriages, 1866 -2010
 * Texas Marriages, 1837-1973
 * Texas Marriages, 1966 -2010
 * Texas, County Marriages, 1837-1965
 * Texas, County Marriages Index, 1837 - 1977

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