Source Information

Ancestry.com. California, U.S., Marriages, 1850-1877 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Upper Snake River Family History Center and Ricks College (Rexburg, Idaho). California Marriages, 1850-1877. The information presented here was extracted between 1982 and 1996 primarily from marriage records held at county courthouses. Specific source information is listed for each entry.

About California, U.S., Marriages, 1850-1877

This database contains information on individuals who were married in select areas of California between 1850 and 1960. Note that not all counties are included in this index and within the counties that are included not all years within the date range may be covered. Information that may be found in this database for each individual includes their name, spouse's name, spouse's gender, marriage date and location, county and state in which the marriage was recorded, residence of bride and groom, and source information. Marriage records are great sources for genealogists because they document an individual in a particular place and time as well as provide details about that person's marriage.

It is important that you use the information found in this database to locate your ancestor in the original records that this index references. Usually more information is available in the records themselves than is found in an index. For example, marriage records sometimes provide the birth dates and places of the bride and groom, their parents' names, their addresses, and witnesses' names, in addition to the information found in this index. Copies of many of the county marriage records can be found in the county courthouses where they were recorded, or in state or local archives.