Source Information

Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.
Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1936-2014. Virginia Department of Health, Richmond, Virginia.

About Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014

This collection contains an index of details extracted from Virginia marriage records for the years 1989–2014, as well as images for the years 1936–1993, which fall outside the 25-year privacy restriction. They can contain a variety of details, including:

  • name
  • race
  • age at marriage
  • birth date
  • gender
  • mother’s name
  • father’s name
  • marriage date and place
  • spouse’s name, birth date, marriage age, gender, race, mother and father’s names
  • certificate number

For images of closed records (records that fall within years under the privacy restriction), contact the Virginia Department of Health.

Updates:
20 Feb 2020: Added images for certificates from 1992 and 1993.
22 Sep 2022: Added images for certificates from 1994 and 1995.