Marriage Records
Record of the Month! To celebrate Valentine’s Day, for the month of February we are featuring a volume of Marriage Records dated 1808-1828. In the early hours of April 3, 1875, the Licking County Courthouse was reduced to a smoldering ruin as a result of a fire. Sadly, the fire destroyed an estimated 2,500 boxes of early county and Probate Court records. The marriage records displayed here are among the handful of Probate Court records that were recovered. Despite having well over 500 marriage records bound in this volume, it is only a fraction of the number of marriage records that were lost. Although the 1875 fire has become a frustrating roadblock for genealogical researchers across the country, there is still hope. It is sometimes possible to unearth marital relationships through other records found at the Licking County Records & Archives Center. For example Law Record and Chancery Record volumes will list various genealogical relationships depending o