Finding PA Marriage Licenses

Your Pennsylvania Ancestors

English - May 28, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 12.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 22 ratings
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Not every genealogy record we want is online and indexed for easy searching. In fact the majority of records are not even digitized! This is certainly the case for marriage licenses in PA, and in this episode I start online to look for John Curry's marriage record before contacting the county to get it.

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Ancestry's two largest marriage license databases

Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852-1968 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61381/ Pennsylvania, U.S., County Marriage Records, 1845-1963 https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/61324/ Step-by-step video on how-to search for marriage licenses in FamilySearch, join as an Inner Circle Member and get access to it and many more bonus materials.

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