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Common-Law Marriages: A Closer Look at Marriage Records #4 Common Law Marriage, Find Name, Marriage Date, Genealogy Free, Genealogy Resources, Marriage Records, Common Law, Genealogy Research, Old Newspaper

What do you do if you can’t find a marriage record, bond, or banns, no matter where you look? It could be that one never existed in the first place (there are several reasons for this), or that the record was lost to time long ago. Fortunately, there are alternative ways to find a marriage date, or record that a marriage took place. Here are some places to look.

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Bail Money, Find Name, Genealogy Resources, Marriage Records, State Of Colorado, Marriage Certificate, Genealogy Research, Marriage License, Early American

Marriage bonds are more common than marriage licenses in early colonial marriage records. Licenses didn’t become common until the mid to late 1800s. Bonds were usually used prior to that. This is what a bond is, how it differs from a license, and what type of information you may find in one of them.

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