Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991
Index and digital images of microfilmed marriage records from Missouri counties including recorded marriages, marriage applications, licenses, and certificates. This collection includes records from the microfilm collections of FamilySearch and of the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, Missouri. This project is being published as images and index data become available.
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Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records
What is in This Collection?
This collection consists of and index and digital images of microfilmed marriage records from Missouri counties including recorded marriages, marriage applications, licenses, and certificates. This collection includes records from the microfilm collections of FamilySearch and of the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City, Missouri. This project is being published as images and index data become available. It covers the years 1800 to 1991. The collection includes naturalization records for Jefferson, Osage; court records for Butler, Lafayette, Jefferson, Macon, Polk, Ripley, Saline, St. Charles, and Washington counties; Military Bounty Osage County; Deeds for Lewis and Osage counties and Tax records for Madison county.
To Browse This Collection
| You can browse through images in this collection using the waypoints on the Collection Browse Page for Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991. |
Additional records and/or images may be added to this collection in the future.
What Can These Records Tell Me?
The following information may be found in these records: The following information is often found in these records:
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Marriage
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Wills and Probate
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Naturalization
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Collection Content
Sample Image
Marriages 1911-1912
Marriages 1991
Marriage 1943
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Coverage Table
This table lists the number of marriage records by county included in this collection as of 3 May 2021. Records where the exact county were not identified are listed at the end of the table as Missouri.
| County | Records |
|---|---|
| Adair | 11,123 |
| Andrew | 12,149 |
| Atchison | 1 |
| Audrain | 10,145 |
| Barry | 11,865 |
| Barton | 6,923 |
| Bates | 25,777 |
| Benton | 14,211 |
| Bollinger | 14,823 |
| Boone | 18,570 |
| Buchanan | 63,797 |
| Butler | 50,987 |
| Caldwell | 26,281 |
| Callaway | 13,345 |
| Camden | 4,898 |
| Cape Girardeau | 150,328 |
| Carroll | 79,925 |
| Carter | 2,630 |
| Cass | 108,143 |
| Cedar | 32,369 |
| Chariton | 6,673 |
| Christian | 19,792 |
| Clark | 8,707 |
| Clay | 46,691 |
| Clinton | 40,824 |
| Cole | 32,709 |
| Cooper | 14,219 |
| Crawford | 10,487 |
| Dade | 16,249 |
| Dallas | 11,847 |
| Daviess | 53,140 |
| DeKalb | 13,354 |
| Dent | 0 |
| Douglas | 0 |
| Dunklin | 30,827 |
| Franklin | 0 |
| Gasconade | 1,928 |
| Gentry | 9,347 |
| Greene | 0 |
| Grundy | 8,493 |
| Harrison | 0 |
| Henry | 2,196 |
| Hickory | 2,940 |
| Holt | 6,458 |
| Howard | 9,726 |
| Howell | 26,659 |
| Iron | 1,427 |
| Jackson | 592,751 |
| Jasper | 60,359 |
| Jefferson | 189,092 |
| Johnson | 0 |
| Knox | 13,316 |
| Laclede | 59,398 |
| Lafayette | 80 |
| Lawrence | 5,074 |
| Lewis | 15,185 |
| Lincoln | 13,869 |
| Linn | 21,301 |
| Livingston | 20,799 |
| Macon | 20,430 |
| Madison | 9,634 |
| Maries | 4,185 |
| Marion | 2,830 |
| McDonald | 7,240 |
| Mercer | 0 |
| Miller | 4,942 |
| Mississippi | 14,083 |
| Moniteau | 0 |
| Monroe | 15,077 |
| Montgomery | 7,682 |
| Morgan | 34,348 |
| New Madrid | 15,014 |
| Newton | 5,869 |
| Nodaway | 40,894 |
| Oregon | 0 |
| Osage | 8,183 |
| Ozark | 0 |
| Pemiscot | 49,860 |
| Perry | 30,190 |
| Pettis | 26,515 |
| Phelps | 34,405 |
| Pike | 16,618 |
| Platte | 7,514 |
| Polk | 61,295 |
| Pulaski | 0 |
| Putnam | 3,294 |
| Ralls | 20,644 |
| Randolph | 52,270 |
| Ray | 41,509 |
| Reynolds | 3,326 |
| Ripley | 4,434 |
| Saline | 1,343 |
| Schuyler | 61,403 |
| Scotland | 15,898 |
| Scott | 123,003 |
| Shannon | 0 |
| Shelby | 11,313 |
| St. Charles | 20,255 |
| St. Clair | 0 |
| St. Francois | 1 |
| St. Louis | 182,128 |
| St. Louis | 182,128 |
| Ste. Genevieve | 12,624 |
| Stoddard | 48,022 |
| Stone | 0 |
| Sullivan | 10,178 |
| Taney | 12,558 |
| Texas | 0 |
| Vernon | 13,425 |
| Warren | 13,447 |
| Washington | 28,333 |
| Wayne | 5,158 |
| Webster | 12,784 |
| Worth | 18,156 |
| Wright | 0 |
| Missouri | 8,790 |
Collection Details
Location of Original Records
Missouri State Archives
"Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991." Database with images. FamilySearch. https://FamilySearch.org : 24 February 2026. Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City.
