Florida Marriage License Records Database

By Kenneth Wright


In the event of a wedding in the state of Florida, the local county Clerk of Court will record the event in the form of a marriage certificate. Within the next two months, these files will then be sent to the Bureau of Vital Statistics office where it will be housed as a permanent public record. In the Sunshine State, Florida marriage records prior to June 6th 1927 are kept by the Clerk of Court in the county where the event originated, while every marital report that has been filed since then are housed, maintained, and disseminated at the state's Bureau of Vital Statistics office under the supervision of the Florida Department of Health.

Whatever your reasons are for wanting a copy of a particular marriage certificate, an extra copy for specific legal purposes, a brand new copy to replace the ones that have been destroyed in some unforeseen events like a fire or flood, for genealogy purposes, or simply out of curiosity, obtaining certified copies of these documents is just a matter of contacting the right agency and submitting the appropriate request forms. These days, as long as the document still exists, gathering the files you need is relatively simple and effortless.

Ordering a certified copy of a marriage report will cost requesters five dollars each. Search requests will cost you five bucks as well, and an additional two dollars for each succeeding year searched. If you are not aware which year the event took place, you can request a year-by-year search of up to 25 years for a maximum fee of fifty dollars per transaction. If you are in need of more than one copy of the report, you can request multiple copies at the same time for four dollars each.

For the five dollar fee, a requester will receive a certified copy of the document he or she ordered if it is available at the agency's database. If the file requested is not found, the applicant will receive a certificate that will state that the record is not on file. Getting the latter notification can be rather infuriating. But this is not the end of the line. There are other avenues you can try to locate the vital documents you want to get a hold of, like the local county office where the event originated.

On the other hand, if you still can't find the marriage record you need in any of those offices, there is one more source that you may want to consider. These days, record retrieval services are the most popular record search tools in the Internet. They are quick and easy to navigate, most of the reputable ones are dependable and comprehensive enough, and they are relatively less costly than your average government information service.

In exchange for a single payment deal, registered users can perform unlimited public record searches. They will also benefit from the site's other information services. Whether you are trying to gather a multitude of marriage licenses and other public documents, you won't have to worry about the added cost since the service will only require a one-time fee. Additionally, because this kind of online service is not limited to one state alone, you can effectively access records from other states as well. With some websites even offering public reports from Guam, Puerto Rico and other US territories.




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