Donata or anyone,
I recently sent to the clerk's office for marriage licenses on two sets of
relatives and stated that I needed parents names. They returned my check and letter with
a note stating that the party's parents weren't listed for either couple. That
was nice of them since they had to go to the trouble to look. My questions are:
1) Do I resend to the same office (Clerk) to ask for the application or is it standard
procedure there to look on that too when the person is requesting information on parents?
2) Can I sent to Bracken for this information and what are the fees, address etc. OR do I
have to have someone go there and do a look-up?
Thx
Shirl
----- Original Message -----
From: Donata S. Boyle
To: INDELAWA-L(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Friday, June 30, 2000 1:17 AM
Subject: Re: [INDELAWA-L] marriage
Hi all;
I'am not sure how long it has been that the marriage records went to
Bracken but they are there. (I think more recent are still in the court
house).
ALSO when you are requesting information at either place court house
or Bracken I personally would advise for you to ASK SPECIFICALLY FOR
THE APPLICATION FOR MARRIAGE also besides a copy of the marriage
licenses. The reason I say that is most people don't relize or forget
they are two different forms. (I did this before) I asked for the
marriage licenses and all it had was their names their marriage data
(stuff I already had and did not have the parents names or birth places
of the bride or groom which was what I was wanting).
Then someone told me to ask for the Marriage APPLICATION. So I did and
sure enough it had all the data I was wanting on it. Now don't count on
that being the case everytime (I have asked for some and there either
wasn't one or it did not have anything further I wanted such as birth
place or parents). I believe Bracken has both Marriage LICENSES and
Marriage APPLICATIONS before 1920. I don't recall the actual dates they
have.
Hope this helps.
Donata Boyle
Virginia wrote:
Hi Damon...listers...It's been awhile since I sent for a pre-1920 Del Co
marriage license. How long have they been housed at the Bracken Library
Archives? (Shows how out of touch I am out here in AZ LOL)
Virginia
>At 06:40 PM 6/29/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>Dear List, I was surprised and thrilled to see the marriage of my gggp on
>>the list of marriages on the Delaware Co Webpage. They were Sarah Bales
>>and Noah Bantz. Her middle initial is debatable. Does anyone know how I
>>can get a copy of their marriage record. I have the date, but last year
>>when I sent to the Delaware Co Clerk for the record, they sent my money
>>back saying no record found. It obviously is somewhere or would not be on
>>the webpage. I would like to know where to send for the a copy of the
>>original record. Thanks, cbj
>>
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