Delaware Marriage Records

About Delaware Marriage Records:

Delaware Statewide Marriage Record Links:

• Delaware Marriages (an AOL member site)
• Marriages in Sussex, New Castle & Unknown Counties (mitsawokett.com)
• Birth, Death, & Marriage records in Bibles:
  • CARTY / WYATT Family Bible
  • COTT Family Bible
  • RIDGEWAY Family Bible

Delaware Statewide Genealogy Resources:

$ indicates a subscription database,
but all offer a free trial for free access.

• Delaware Census Records (CensusFinder)
• Delaware Family Histories
  (University of Delaware Research Guide)
• Delaware History (Wikipedia)
• Delaware Hundreds (Explanation and locations of the Delaware land divisions called "Hundreds")
• Delaware Mailing Lists (RootsWeb)
• Delaware Roster of Union Soldiers -
  (Bits of Blue & Gray)
• Delaware State Archives
• County Finder (enter town and state to get the county name)
• Penny Postcards from Delaware (USGenWeb)
• RootsWeb General Search
• RootsWeb Surname List

Maps of Interest:

• Delaware River, Settlements of the Dutch, Swedes, and Finns, 1631-64
• Pennsylvania and the Lower Counties of Delaware, 1681-1740

Delaware Products and Subscriptions:

• All Delaware Databases $

How to Obtain a Delaware Marriage Certificate:

• Order Marriage Certificates Online

The Delaware Office of Vital Statistics has marriage records from 1958 to the present. For marriages before 1958, contact the Delaware Public Archives, the County or Town clerk for copies of certificates.

Office of Vital Statistics
P.O. Box 637
Dover, DE 19903

Information:
(302) 744-4549.

(Divorce records from 1862 to the present are kept by the County Clerk for each county.)

Delaware Marriages by County:

Know the town, but not the County?

• Kent County
• New Castle County
• Sussex County

Delaware Message Boards:

• Ancestry Delaware Board
• Genealogy Forum
• RootsWeb Message Board
• Search the Social Security Death Index
• Surname Community Search
• Surname Search - Message Boards @ Genealogy.com

• Delaware Vital Records

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Should You Get Help to Access Delaware Marriage Records?

One of the great things about the internet is that it has made it easier than ever before us to do things ourselves. Gone are the days when we have to contact our mother or a family friend to learn how to make a certain recipe. Want to know how to make a perfect cheesecake? Simply go online. This has made most people believe that they can do everything themselves, and for the most part this is true. However, when you're talking about accessing Delaware marriage records, can you do this yourself or not?

Getting Help

For a very long time the only way we were able to gain access to these types of information was to hire someone to do the work for them. This meant hiring an expert in ancestry research which could cost a very large amount of money. If you had this amount of money, then it was easy to hire someone. Fortunately, the cost for hiring someone has gone down quite a bit, mainly due to the internet. Records online has made it much easier for us to gain access to this type of information. Instead of having to travel around the world to get information about your family, a paid researcher can simply go online and access a great deal of information. Birth certificates, death certificates, and marriage records are all available online, and these experts use this information to build your family tree for you.

Going It On Your Own

While the cost for hiring experts has gone down quite a bit, it's still a prohibitive price for someone who doesn't have a great deal of money. That doesn't mean, however, that you should avoid getting your family background researched. Fortunately, you can research it all on your own much easier than you may think. There are a number of online websites that you can use to get the information you're looking for, and many of these websites will even give you free access, even if just for a short time.

So how does it work? If you're looking for information about family that lived in Delaware, for instance, all you'd have to do is to look for Delaware marriage records of your family members. Marriage records are a perfect place to start simply because they contain a wealth of information. With these marriage records you can learn all about the birth place and date of both the bride and groom as well as the names of their parents.

So should you hire someone to help you to locate information about your family's history or not? That depends on your financial situation and how much time you have available. While hiring someone to help you can make things easier and can make the process go faster, there's a certain satisfaction that you'll get in doing the researching on your own and you get a better understanding of your ancestor while looking at all the different genealogy records you find.