One of the main goals for genealogists is finding marriage information about their ancestors.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, a great number of indexes to marriage collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific marriage license, bond, and certificate information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual marriage documents themselves. These free online collections have hundreds of millions of records in them in total.
There are a great number of online and offline collections that may include marriage information that is not included in the lists below. These different types can be found in 27 Ways to Find Ancestor Marriage Information.
The lists below are specific marriage indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state of Virginia.
Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Note: I have included links to Free Ancestry records and indexes. You do not need a subscription, but do need an Ancestry account. Without a subscription, you can view indexes. If there is an image associated with a record, in most cases you will need a subscription, but the index does include very usable information.
(Updated June 2022)
- Accomack County Marriage License Bonds 1806-1835
- Accomack County Marriage Notices 1881-1912
- Accomack County Marriages
- Accomack County Index to Marriage Register, no. 6
- Accomack County Marriage Licenses and Bonds, 1774-1917
- Accomack County, Marriage Registry 1896-1925
- Albemarle County Marriage Bonds
- Albemarle County Marriage Indexes
- Albemarle County Marriages
- Alexandria Marriage Indexes
- Alexandria A list of Marriage Certificates 1801-1850
- Alleghany County Marriages
- Amelia County Marriage Indexes
- Amelia County Marriages
- Amelia County Marriage Bonds
- Amelia County, Marriages 1756-1828
- Amherst County Marriage Bonds and other Marriage Records of 1763-1800
- Amherst County Marriage Bonds and Returns 1801-1854
- Amherst County Marriage Indexes
- Amherst County Marriages 1801 to 1854
- Amherst County, Marriage Bonds 1753-1853
- Amherst County, Marriage Bonds, 1763-1825
- Arlington County Marriages
- Augusta County Marriage Indexes
- Augusta County Marriages
- Augusta County Record of Marriages 1834-1846
- Augusta County, Marriages
- Bath County Marriages
- Bedford County Marriage Bonds
- Bedford County Marriage Bonds of 1755-1800
- Bedford County Marriage Indexes
- Bedford County Marriages
- Bedford County Marriages
- Bedford County Records
- Botetourt County Marriage Index
- Botetourt County Marriage Indexes
- Botetourt County Marriages
- Botetourt County Marriages 1770-1800
- Brooke County Marriage Record, 1848-1854
- Brunswick County Marriage Indexes
- Brunswick County Marriages
- Brunswick County Marriages
- Buckingham County Records, 1786-1858
- Campbell County Marriage Bonds 1781-1854
- Campbell County Marriages
- Caroline County Marriage Indexes
- Carroll County UnIndexed Marriage Records
- Charles City County Marriages
- Charles City County Marriages Database
- Charlotte County Marriages
- Chesterfield County, Marriages, 1771-1799
- Craig County Marriages
- Culpeper County Marriage Bonds, 1780-1850
- Culpeper County Marriages
- Culpeper County Marriages 1781-1815
- Culpepper County Marriages 1781-1815
- Cumberland County Marriage Indexes
- Cumberland County Marriages
- Cumberland County Marriages and Wills Abstracted, 1749-1799
- Dickenson County Marriage and Death Indexes
- Dinwiddie County Marriage Records 1852-2000
- Dinwiddie County Marriages
- Early Virginia Marriages : from original County Records
- Early Virginia Marriages : Pt. I
- Eastern Shore Marriage Notices
- Fairfax County Marriage Licenses 1853 – 1957 – Bride
- Fairfax County Marriage Licenses 1853 – 1957 – Groom
- Fairfax County Marriages
- Fauquier Count Marriages 1759-1959
- Fauquier County Court Records
- Fauquier County Marriage Index 1897-1906
- Fauquier County Marriage Indexes
- Fauquier County Marriages
- Fauquier County, Marriage Returns (not Bonds)
- Fauquier County, Marriage Returns (not Bonds) 1785-1848
- Floyd County Marriage Indexes
- Floyd County Marriages
- Floyd County Marriages 1831-1940
- Fluvanna County Marriage Bonds (prior to 1801)
- Fluvanna County Marriage Indexes
- Fluvanna County Index to Register of Certificates of Marriages 1781 to 1853 and Marriage Bonds 1777 to 1858
- Fluvanna County, Marriage Bonds 1781 to 1860
- Fluvanna County, Marriages, 1783-1809
- Franklin County Marriage Bonds 1786-1858
- Franklin County Marriage Indexes
- Franklin County Marriage Bond Register, 1786-1853; loose Marriage Bonds and Licenses, 1785-1900
- Franklin County Registers of Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1853-1915 ; Index to Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1853-1898
- Frederick County Marriages
- Fredericksburg Marriage Bonds 1782 to 1860
- Fredericksburg Marriage Index
- Fredericksburg Marriage Returns and Marriage Bonds
- Giles County Marriage Bonds, 1821-1853
- Giles County Marriage Register, 1806-1913, Birth and Death Registers, 1855-1896; Indexes to Birth, Marriage and Death Registers
- Giles County Registers of Marriages, 1871-1943
- Gloucester County Freedmens Marriages
- Goochland County Marriage Bonds, 1730-1854
- Goochland County Marriage Indexes
- Goochland County Marriages
- Grayson County Marriage Index
- Greene County Marriages
- Halifax County Marriage Indexes
- Halifax County Marriages
- Halifax County Marriages
- Hanover County Freedmen’s Marriage Register
- Hanover County Marriages
- Henley Marriage Index
- Henrico County Marriage Indexes
- Henrico County Marriage Indexes
- Henry County Marriage Bonds 1778-1799
- Henry County Marriage Bonds, 1778-1849
- Henry County Marriage Indexes
- Henry County Marriages
- Henry County Marriage Register 1778-1849
- Henry County Marriage Registers
- Highland County Marriages
- Highland County Marriages 1847-1853
- Index to Marriage Notices in the Southern Churchman, 1835-1941
- Isle of Wight County and Marriage Records, 1634-1951
- Isle Of Wight County Marriage Indexes
- Isle of Wight County Marriage Indexes
- Isle of Wight County Marriages 1628-1800
- Isle of Wight County Marriage Records, 1772-1852
- Isle Of Wight County Marriages, 1628-1800
- Isle of Wight County Registers of Marriages 1854-1900, Births 1853-1876, and Deaths 1853-1874 ; Indexes to Registers
- Isle of Wight County, Marriage Records,1775-1837
- King George County Marriage Indexes
- King George County Marriages
- King George County, Marriage Bonds, 1715-1787
- Lancaster County Marriage Indexes
- Lancaster County Marriage Bonds 1652-1850
- Lancaster County Marriage Bonds, 1652-1850
- Lee County Marriage Indexes
- Lee County Marriages
- Library of Virginia Marriage Index 1719-1898
- Loudon County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Loudoun County Marriage Bonds and Marriage Records, 1767 through 1843
- Loudoun County Marriage Records
- Loudoun County Marriage Records 1751-1880
- Loudoun County Marriage Records, 1751-1880
- Loudoun County, Marriage Bonds, 1762-1850
- Louisa County Marriage Indexes
- Louisa County Marriage Records from Dec. 9, 1766 to Jan. 7, 1788
- Louisa County, Marriage Bonds, 1769-1856
- Lunenburg County Marriage Indexes
- Lunenburg County Marriages
- Lynchburg City Marriage Bonds, 1805-1854
- Lynchburg City Marriage Bonds, 1805-1854
- Lynchburg Marriages from beginning through 1828
- Marriage Register of the Presbyterian Church at Alexandria, Virginia
- Mecklenburg County Marriage Returns of Ministers, 1785-1841
- Mecklenburg County Marriage Bonds, 1770-1912
- Mecklenburg County Marriage License Bonds 1765 to 1810
- Mecklenburg County Marriage Records, 1765-1853
- Mecklenburg County Marriage Records, 1782-1909
- Mecklenburg County Marriage Register, 1854-1929
- Middlesex County Marriages
- Middlesex County Christ Church Parish Register 1653 to 1812
- Middlesex County Marriage Bonds 1704-1854, Index only
- Middlesex County Marriage Bonds 1740-1854
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Miscellaneous Virginia Marriages 1700-1799
- Miscellaneous Virginia Marriages 1800-1825
- Montgomery County, Marriage Bonds 1831-1854
- Nansemond County Marriage Registers, 1900-1910, 1952-1972
- Nelson County Marriages
- Nelson County, Marriage Bonds, 1808-1866
- Nelson County, Marriages from beginning of County through 1837
- New Kent Marriages, 1854-1910
- New Kent Marriages, 1911-1950
- New Kent Marriages, 1951-1993
- Norfolk County and Portsmouth Marriages
- Norfolk County Marriage Bonds October 5, 1706 to December 31, 1850
- Norfolk, Marriage Indexes
- Orange County Marriage Records, 1757-1938
- Orange County Marriage Registers, 1757-1938
- Orange County Marriages
- Orange County Marriage and Birth Records, 1751-1778
- Orange County, Marriage Bonds, 1757-1803 and 1810-1865
- Page County Marriage Bonds 1831-1851
- Page County Marriages
- Patrick County Marriage Indexes
- Pittsylvania County Marriage Bonds, 1767-1864
- Pittsylvania County Marriage Indexes
- Pittsylvania County Marriage Records 1767-1819
- Pittsylvania County Marriages
- Portsmouth Marriage Indexes
- Prince Edward County Marriages
- Prince George County Marriages
- Prince George County Record of Marriages 1801-1850
- Prince William County Vital Records Indexes
- Princess Anne County Marriage Indexes
- Princess Anne County Vital Records
- Pulaski County Marriage Indexes
- Pulaski County Marriages 1838 – 1845
- Pulaski County Marriage Records 1839-1900
- Rappahannock and Essex Counties Index to Marriages 1655-1900
- Rappahannock County Marriages
- Richmond City Marriage Indexes
- Richmond County Marriages
- Richmond Marriage Index
- Richmond Marriage Bonds
- Roanoke County Marriages
- Roanoke County Marriage Licenses, 1838-1853; Marriage Register, 1853-1918 (1919)
- Rockbridge County Marriage Bonds
- Rockbridge County Marriage Indexes
- Rockbridge County Marriages
- Rockingham County Marriage Indexes
- Rockingham County Marriages
- Rockingham County Old Tenth Legion Marriages 1778-1816, taken from the Marriage Bonds
- Rockingham County Death Registers, 1862-1894
- Rockingham County Marriage Register (ministers’ returns), 1791-1852
- Rockingham County Marriage Registers, 1864-1926 ; Indexes to Marriage Registers, 1778-1939, 1968-1983
- Rockingham County, Virginia Valley Records
- Rockingham County, Virginia Valley Records
- Russell County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Russell County, Marriage Register 1871-1885 (Vol. 2) : also including the lost Marriage Records, 1848-1853
- Scott County License & Return of Marriages, 1815-1853
- Scott County Marriage Index
- Scott County Marriage Indexes
- Scott County Marriages
- Scott County, Marriage Books
- Shenandoah County Marriage Bonds, 1772-1850
- Shenandoah County Marriages
- Smyth County Marriage Licenses 1832-1850
- Smyth County Marriages
- Some Virginia Marriages, 1700-1799
- Some Virginia Marriages, 1700-1799
- Some Virginia Marriages, 1800-1825
- Southampton County Marriage Bonds and Ministers’ Returns 1750-1810
- Southampton County Marriage Indexes
- Spotsylvania County, Marriage Bonds, 1795-1853
- Stafford County Marriages
- Staunton Spectator Marriages 1755, 1781-1794
- Surry County Marriage Index
- Surry County Marriage Records, 1735-1950
- Surry County Marriages
- Surry County, Minister’s Returns, 1705-1852
- Sussex County Marriage Indexes
- Sussex County Marriages
- Tazewell County Marriage Indexes
- Tazewell County, Annals 1800 -1924
- United States Marriages, 1733-1990
- United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872
- Virginia Beach Marriage Indexes
- Virginia Genealogies and County Records
- Virginia Marriage Records before 1853
- Virginia Marriages 1760-1824
- Virginia Marriages, 1700-1799
- Virginia Marriages, 1700-1799, Vol. 1
- Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940
- Virginia Marriages, 1800-1825
- Virginia Records copied from the Richmond Enquirer, 1831-35
- Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1771-1943
- Virginia, Historical Society Papers, 1607-2007
- Virginia, Marriage Certificates, 1936-1988
- Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-1996
- Virginia, Newspapers, Marriage and Obituary Index, 1736-1820
- Virginia, Richmond Times Dispatch, Marriages and Obituaries Index cards, 1903-1909
- Virginia, Surry County Marriage Records, 1735-1950
- Warren County Marriages
- Washington County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Washington County Marriages
- Westmoreland County Marriage Indexes
- Westmoreland County Marriage Bonds, Licenses and Ministers’ Returns, 1772-1901
- Westmoreland County Marriage Records, 1826-1850; Marriage License Bonds, 1786-1850; Marriage Registers, 1854-1908; Birth Registers, 1858-1895
- Wise County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Wood County Consent to Marry, 1880-1926
- Wood County Miscellaneous Records, 1801-1900
- York County 18th Century Marriages
- York County Births or Christenings, 1648-1789
- York County Marriage Indexes
- York County Marriages
- York County Marriages
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One reply on “Free Online Virginia Marriage Records and Indexes”
Where are the marriages for Northumberland County, Virginia?