This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AY.2ADE/1043 Message Board Post: Having read the San Joaquin County online information on marriage records, I am not much the wiser about the possibility of looking up marriage indexes, so I should like to know how I should go about finding the following information: Perl Oscar Clift married Edith Mae (Stong) Cox sometime after 1947. They both came from IA and may have married there or in San Joaquin Co. Perl's nephew visited them in the period 1951-55 in San Joaquin Co. They lived in Modesto, Stanislaus Co. from sometime in the 1950s, where they both died. I don't have a specific year when they married and feel sure that an enquiry through the mail with vague data won't get much response. My questions are: (1) Can anyone look up the marriage indexes for these earlier-than-1965 years? (2) Can anyone order a marriage certificate? California seems to vary from county to county.