Illinois Marriage License

By Claire Dowell


For Illinois, there are two types of legal spousal partnership; there are marriages and there are the newly approved domestic partnerships called civil unions. Civil unions became official on June 1, 2011. Thus, indexes will not be accessible from the Illinois Vital Records Division until June 1, 2012. At any rate, the state Division can only provide indexes of both matrimonial events and dissolution of nuptials. If you need actual duplicates of Illinois Marriage Records or termination of marriage decrees, you can request from the circuit court clerk office in the county where the divorce or marriage occurred.

It is the main task of the Illinois Public Health Department to preserve statewide files on births, deaths, nuptials, civil unions and divorces or known in the state as "dissolutions". Files on deaths and births that were collected by the state department can date back to 1916. Records on state marriages available at the government agency are those that have taken place from 1962 up to the present index date on hand. You can only request for verifications and not actual nuptial certificates from this office. If you need the actual certificate copy, you have to order that from the court clerk's office in the municipality where it happened.

For a $5 fee, you can get in touch with the Vital Records Division, and check whether or not a certain marital union has ever taken place in the state (lookup will cover information from 1962-current list on hand). You may apply for verification by regular mail service, fax, or by walk-in application. If not, you may drop in the local courthouse in which the married partners took their license. There is an index of circuit court registrars per county on the government portal in case you do not know their contact details.

Having the following pieces of information will be handy if you need to order a verification of marriage file from the Department: information about the sought record (e.g. names of both spouses, their birth dates, the place and date of the event), a valid credit card number, a reachable telephone number, delivery address, and a clear copy of a valid photo identification card. The approval of your requests may be at stake of course if you are unable to provide all the requirements.

Check a wide array of government public records like criminal information, court filings, vital records and more online. Like other convenient and practical things that the modern age offers, there are excellent record lookup engines on the Web wherein you can carry out your investigative tasks like tracking your family tree, locating a missing family member, finding your old-time colleagues, checking backgrounds of individuals of interest and so forth.

Marriage Records are one of the sought-after files when you complete a genealogy task or if you need to verify the legal status of your potential husband or wife. Having unrestrained access to such data would certainly mean thorough knowledge and understanding on people you want to know. It will be very fast and comfortable being able to pull up various public filings from any location as long as you have a Web-enabled computer or mobile gadget.




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