MyHeritage offers free access to marriage records

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, MyHeritage is granting free access to its marriage records from today through Feb. 17, 2024.

MyHeritage has 254 collections containing 746 million historical records. Marriage records typically reveal names, birth dates, places of birth, and residences of the bride and groom, often extending to details about their parents or the witnesses, who might be close family friends or relatives.

Access to these records usually requires a subscription, but right now they’re completely free to search. Simply register for a free MyHeritage account to begin.

To start searching, go to: www.myheritage.com/marriage-records

Free access to marriage records on MyHeritage.com

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with free access to all marriage records on MyHeritage.com from February 13–20, 2022.

Marriage records usually contain the names, birth dates, birthplaces, and places of residence of the bride and groom, and sometimes contain information on the parents of the bride and groom or witnesses, who may have been family friends or other relatives.

MyHeritage has 164 marriage record collections containing almost 600 million records from all over the world.

Normally, a Complete or Data plan is required to view these records, but for these eight day you’ll be able to search and view them for free.

To start searching, go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/catalog/category-2020/marriage-divorce?tr_id=gaj30502ix2964n1

 

 

 

MyHeritage.com offers free access to marriage collections

MyHeritage.com will be offering free access to all marriage records from now until Tuesday, February 16, 2021.

Marriage records are extremely valuable because of the wealth of genealogical content they contain. You may learn how old the bride and groom’s age at the time of marriage, where the bride and groom lived, when and/or where they were born, the names of their parents, where their parents were born, what their occupations were, and more.

MyHeritage offers 158 marriage collections with 462,808,849 total records. You can access these records by creating a free account with MyHeritage.

To get started searching, go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/catalog/category-2000/birth-marriage-death

Free access to marriage records on MyHeritage.com

Free access to marriage records on MyHeritage.com

To celebrate Valentine’s Day, MyHeritage.com is offering free access to over 440 million marriage records from today through Tuesday, Feb. 18,

There are 148 collections from all around the world including: the United States, England, Germany, Canada, Italy, Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Australia and more.

Marriage certificates are a great resource for family information and typically contain not only the bride and groom’s names but parents names, ages, place of birth, and addresses.

To get started searching you will need to set up a free account at www.myheritage.com by clicking on Log In. After you have created an account, click on Research, then Birth, Marriage and Death.  On the right side of the page, click on Marriages and Divorces.

 

New church records for Brooklyn added to database

The German Genealogy Group, which meets each month at the V.F.W. in Hicksville, recently added more records to its church records database.

Records have been added for the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension which was located in Brooklyn.

Records added to the database are: baptisms of children, 1906-1957; baptisms of adults, 1910-1947; confirmations, 1909-1952; funerals, 1906-1955 and marriages, 1908-1958.

To search these records, go to: www.germangenealogygroup.com and click on databases. Select the tab for church records and then choose which category you wish to search.

 

Free access to marriage recods collection available at MyHeritage

The genealogy website MyHeritage.com is providing free access to love-related records from today through February 17.

Though normally you would need a subscription to look at records on MyHeritage.com, no subscription is need to access these records for this time period.

Marriage records not only include the names of the bride and groom but can contain their birth place, current residence, occupation and parents names.

Not only are there marriage records available for the U.S. but also many foregin countries. Some of the countries included in the free access include: Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Ireland, Germany, Great Britian, Italy, Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden and Wales.

You will need to set up a free user name and password to access the records. To start searching the records, go to: https://www.myheritage.com/research/category-2020/marriage-divorce?s=343663401

 

NYC Clerk’s Office marriage records index available

The digitized images for the index to the New York City Clerk’s Office marriage records (the application, affidavit, and license) for 1908-1929 is now online and free to the public.

The index images have been provided by a group called Reclaim the Records. According to the group, 39 of the 48 microfilm rolls of this index are now online at the Internet Archive, and the remaining nine films will be put online throughout the next few weeks.

To start looking at this index, go to https://archive.org/details/nycmarriageindex

So far, the images uploaded are: MANHATTAN 1908-1929; BROOKLYN 1908-1929 and BRONX 1914-1917. Coming soon are the images for: BRONX 1918-1929; QUEENS 1908-1930 and STATEN ISLAND 1908-1938.

The images are not searchable by name at this time.

If you are interested in getting a copy of this 3-page marriage record, send a letter to:
New York City Municipal Archives, 31 Chambers Street Room 103, New York, NY 10007. You will need to send a self-addressed stamped envelope and a check for $15 made out to New York City Municipal Archives.

In your letter, list the full name of the bride or groom or both if you know both. If listed on the index page, give the Volume number and Page number and the date of the document. If you know the exact wedding date include that information also.

New York City church records available online

FamilySearch.org has recently added marriage records for the Church of the Transfiguration, an Episcopal church, located in Manhattan.

When completed, the records will cover the time period, 1847 – 1937. At present, the Index to Brides covers 1853 – 1923 for the last names beginning with Ab-Ga and 1847 – 1904 for last names beginning with Ge- Z. These cards just have the bride’s and groom’s names and the year they were married.

The Index to Marriages covers the period of 1847 – 1896 for letters Wa- Z and from 1897 – 1923 for the rest of the alphabet. These records are alphabetized by the groom’s last name. Again the cards just have the bride’s and groom’s name and the year (or sometimes the month, day and year) they were married.

There is no name index but you can browse by surname for either collection.

For more information, go to: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/2109939