By Kenneth Wright


In the event of a wedding in the state of Florida, the local county Clerk of Court will record the event in the form of a marriage certificate. Within the next two months, these files will then be sent to the Bureau of Vital Statistics office where it will be housed as a permanent public record. In the Sunshine State, Florida marriage records prior to June 6th 1927 are kept by the Clerk of Court in the county where the event originated, while every marital report that has been filed since then are housed, maintained, and disseminated at the state's Bureau of Vital Statistics office under the supervision of the Florida Department of Health.

Whatever your reasons are for wanting a copy of a particular marriage certificate, an extra copy for specific legal purposes, a brand new copy to replace the ones that have been destroyed in some unforeseen events like a fire or flood, for genealogy purposes, or simply out of curiosity, obtaining certified copies of these documents is just a matter of contacting the right agency and submitting the appropriate request forms. These days, as long as the document still exists, gathering the files you need is relatively simple and effortless.

Ordering a certified copy of a marriage report will cost requesters five dollars each. Search requests will cost you five bucks as well, and an additional two dollars for each succeeding year searched. If you are not aware which year the event took place, you can request a year-by-year search of up to 25 years for a maximum fee of fifty dollars per transaction. If you are in need of more than one copy of the report, you can request multiple copies at the same time for four dollars each.

For the five dollar fee, a requester will receive a certified copy of the document he or she ordered if it is available at the agency's database. If the file requested is not found, the applicant will receive a certificate that will state that the record is not on file. Getting the latter notification can be rather infuriating. But this is not the end of the line. There are other avenues you can try to locate the vital documents you want to get a hold of, like the local county office where the event originated.

In the event where your visit to the abovementioned government offices does not yield positive results, there is one option left that you need to consider. Commercial record search websites, nowadays, are one of the most prevalent online record search tools available. They are relatively easy to use and navigate. Many of the reputable online record providers are reliable enough to yield comprehensive and accurate search results. And more often than not, they cost less compared to most government information services.

For a one-time fee, you will receive unlimited searches and unrestricted access to the site's additional services. It doesn't matter if you are trying to obtain multiple copies of marriage licenses and other marital reports, you will only need to pay once and that's it. Moreover, these types of online record providers are not limited to the state of Florida alone. They can provide vital records from every state in the country, including US territories like Guam, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.




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