Do you need to find out the marital status of someone from New York?Fortunately, this is easier to do than it ever used to be. New York maritalrecords are available from the state online. But surprisingly, your best betfor finding the information you need may not be the official state records.Keep reading to see why.

Suppose you know for a fact that the person got married in New York. Do youknow whether they got married in New York City or New York State? New YorkState doesn’t have New York City records, and vice versa, so you need to figurethat out. Assuming the person was married in New York State, you can go tohttp://www.health.state.ny.us/vital_records/marriage.htm to order a copy of themarriage certificate. Assuming of course that you can document a need for thecertificate as described on the site.

Once you make it past this, you need simply pay a $30 fee ($45 if you wantpriority handling), then wait for the document to be delivered. Depending onexactly how you order it and whether you’re willing to pay for priorityhandling, this will take anywhere from 5 business days to 8 weeks.

But what if you need the marriage records quickly, or you’re missing somebasic information? What if you don’t know whether or not a person was (or stillis) married, or how many times they’ve been married? How can you be sure you’vegot all the information you need without putting in the time and effort totrace through all the records out there? The only way to do a thorough job ofthis is to use a commercially-run site that will search marriage records forevery city and state.

State sites are limited in the information they can provide, whilecommercial sites provide all the information available from every state. Theymake all this information available through an easy to use web site. While theywill charge you a small fee for the information they provide, these sites arefast, efficient, and are far more likely to gather all the information than youwould be if you searched for it yourself. If you value your time and money, orare looking for the most accurate results available, you will want to go with acommercial site.

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