I hope this will clarify the topic of NYC Marriages. >From 1908 to 1937 two NYC governmental entities hold civil [non religious copies] of marriage records: l ) the NYC Department of Health [DOH], & 2 ) the New York City Clerk's Office. A) The DOH marriage certificate is post facto, after the deed was done. The index to the DOH marriages are searchable online, thanks to hundreds of volunteer transcribers in the NYC metro area for the German and Italian Genealogy Groups. Marriages cited via the homepages of GGG & IGG, search-engine-whiz Steve Morse, and requested from the NYC Municipal Archives [1908-1937] are DOH copies. B) The New York City Clerk's marriage license was filed pre-marriage; think of it as the declaration of intentions for marriages 1908-1937. License applications were frequently posted in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper. However, a marriage license filing does not insure that a marriage eventually occurred. These records are only searchable in person at the NYC Municipal Archives, 31 Chambers Street. The Muni staff does not perform searches of these files. Marriage licenses are much more time consuming to find; there is no index, marriages are filed by borough and then year. So, if you are uncertain about the year or borough, it will take a professional researcher longer to locate the marriage license than the DOH record. The upside of a license copy is its rich gengealogical information. It's a fabulous resource for Roman Catholic marriage records, especially Irish Catholics, who married sacramentally in their local parishes. Barb NYC Marriage License Researcher @BL-8/12/2009 ========================================= 8/12/09, BSKTBTQUE@aol.com <BSKTBTQUE@aol.com> wrote: > > > > > I was able to receive my Great Uncle's Marriage License, Certificate > and > > Record of Marriage and Clergymen record. > > > > I do have a question, hopefully somone on list will be able to answer > it. > > > > The affadavit for License to Marry has no date on it (saw applicantion > > info on Bklyn Eagle dated Oct. 15, 1915). The Certificate and Record > of > > Marriage has date of October 22, 1915 but the Clergymen and Magistrates > > copy > > says they were married on November 13, 1915. Why two different > dates?...