{"id":3199,"date":"2022-07-09T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2022-07-18T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T16:49:33","slug":"marriage-records-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/marriage-records-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Archives Adds Marriage Indexes for Cecil &#038; Dorchester counties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Maryland State Archives is gradually introducing new online records. And on 6\/22\/2002, the Archives announced that partial scans of the male and female marriage indexes for Cecil County are available online. The <a href=\"http:\/\/guide.msa.maryland.gov\/pages\/series.aspx?ID=cm354\">male index <\/a>covers 1928-1977, while the <a href=\"http:\/\/guide.msa.maryland.gov\/pages\/series.aspx?ID=cm353\">female index is 1928-1935<\/a>. Access is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Dorchester, the Archives added the Dorchester County marriage records for 1865-1886<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link for the <a href=\"http:\/\/guide.msa.maryland.gov\/pages\/series.aspx?ID=cE434\">Dorchester County Marriage Records. <\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?resize=640%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Dorchester County Marriage index \" class=\"wp-image-3200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?resize=1024%2C463&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?resize=300%2C136&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?resize=768%2C347&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?resize=1200%2C542&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?w=1513&amp;ssl=1 1513w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.dixonhistory.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/dorchester-marriagea.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A page from the Dorchester County Marriage Record Book (Source:  Maryland State Archives)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maryland State Archives is gradually introducing new online records. And on 6\/22\/2002, the Archives announced that partial scans of the male and female marriage indexes for Cecil County are available online. The male index covers 1928-1977, while the female index is 1928-1935. Access is free. 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