I do believe that even if married by a Justice of the Peace, a license would still be needed. Have you checked with Lake County, Indiana? Many from Cook Co. went to Lake Co., IN to get married. After doing genealogy for 38 years, I was about to give up on finding my Grandparents marriage record. I was even thinking that they maybe had a "common law" marriage. Then, just a few months ago, I was going through a new data base that our local college library had put on-line --- and there, much to my shock was a filing for DIVORCE by my Grandfather. The on-line info said that it was a filing, only, and that there were no return papers [in other words, they did not go through with the divorce, just filed the papers]. There, in pen and ink was the date and place of their marriage. Many years ago, Grandpa told me the date and place -- he had the date correct but not the place. Ironically, it is only one county South of me. Moral of this story is to never give up. Grin. Sharon On 21 Nov 2006 at 18:34, ludcon@charter.net wrote: > I also am interested in marriage applications. If someone where to > marry with a Justice of the Peace, would there be a marriage > application involved? I can't find a marriage certificate for my > grandparents who were married about 1920. I'm beginning to think that > maybe they got married with a Justice of the Peace because I found out > that those documents aren't kept after a time. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message