New York City Marriage Records Online

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New york city marriage records online. Marriage record request process. Marriage ceremonies must continue to be arranged through private marriage officiants. The indexes cover the entire state outside of new york city and start in june 1880 deaths or 1881 marriages and births birth indexes are made available after 75 years marriage and death indexes after 50 years. New york is very unusual in that the city and the state are two totally separate vital records jurisdictions.

Index to marriage records from new york city including manhattan brooklyn bronx queens and richmond boroughs. For new york city records. Birth indexes have been made available through 1937 only an index entry states only the name of the person date and place of event and state certificate number. Please visit nyc gov cupid to begin your virtual marriage license process.

You can request a copy of a new york city marriage record online by mail or in person. New york city department of health and mental hygiene or new york city marriage bureau. The municipal archives provides certified historical birth death and marriage records for the five boroughs of new york city. Vital records has marriage records since 1880 for marriage licenses purchased in all of new york state except new york city.

July 1847 1848 july 1853 1909. New york county manhattan kings county brooklyn bronx county the bronx richmond county staten island and queens county queens contact. Manhattan kings brooklyn queens bronx and richmond staten island. What about the data from all the other parts of new york outside of new york city.

Certified marriage records are available to the bride groom those with a documented proper or judicial purpose and those with a court order. It does not have records for marriage licenses purchased in all of new york state except new york city which includes the five boroughs. Doh keeps divorce certificates for both new york state and new york city. Marriage licenses are available exclusively on project cupid.

If you submit your request online you must still complete the. Marriage records issued after 1949 that are older than 50 years from today s date are considered a historic record and is available to the general public.