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Early Licking County Marriage Records

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Recently some records from the Licking County Probate Court were transferred to our department.  These include some 19th-Century marriage records which will be of interest to genealogists.  They are among the small number of county government records which survived the 1875 courthouse fire, and so they can be especially valuable in tracking down ancestors who were in the county. From a page in the Marriage Record, 1808-1828 The recently-transferred marriage records include: Marriage Record, 1808-1828 Transcribed Marriage Record, 1808-1827 Transcribed Marriage Record, 1828-1879 General Index to Early Marriages, 1809-1888 The 1808-1828 volume is a recent-day compilation of pages from earlier sources, which were almost certainly the original, official records.  Because it is a compilation, it might not have a record of every marriage that was performed during that time in the county, but it does have information about thousands of marriages. Most of the post-1875 mar