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All marriages are recorded at county level. You can almost always find them there -- if the county has it's own recorder or clerk and maintains its own records. Many smaller counties combine record keeping with other counties to save money. In some states records are maintained at state level, but some of those are not open to the public. New York State, in its infinite wisdom has locked up all marriage records to honest, law abiding citizens, without a court order at all levels (state, county, city). However, in New York State, you can always get to see your own marriage record if you can prove who you are, using among other methods, your prison ID bracelet or a letter from your parole officer. (I'm paraphrasing this from memory.) Talk about the inmates taking over the asylum!!

Of course you could try to limit your search to places where the bride and groom resided, but that poses a serious risk of something falling through the cracks. For example, neither my wife nor I ever lived within 100 miles of Corpus Christi, TX, yet that is where we were married.

Looking for a divorce can be somewhat easier, because divorces normally take place where at least one of the parties resided -- but, that is often not the case. People come to Nevada to get a divorce after "establishing residence" here. I won't even discuss the question of whether the divorced person was really a resident for the required 6 weeks. Lets assume that they were. If the they stayed in a hotel during that time, it is unlikely that there would be any trace of the Nevada residency.

Certain proprietary databases, including credit reports, which are illegal to access without a legitimate reason, often contain information that links a husband and wife. However, much of that kind of data is inaccurate.

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