With South Dakota marriage records, you will find that you can get a lot of information that you can use to help you to track your genealogy. A number of different bits of information are available that you will find depending on the accuracy of the form as well as the date in which the wedding occurred.

The thing is you need to make sure that the information that you provide to get the record is accurate and complete. As is the case with all research if you do not start with good data, then you will not receive good data back.

In order to get the best information you will need to make sure you know where it is you should look and what information you receive that will be helpful. In order to get the most current and the best info you will need to send in a request to the State Department of Health Department of Health Statistics.
 
This way you will be able to get all of the most accurate and have the best chance to get the records you seek. However, there is a catch. These records were not kept on a state level until 1905. If you are looking for something prior to that it was only kept on a county level and those may or not have been extremely accurate or kept.

Many different things are available that you can find on the record that you will be able to use to help in tracking your history. In order to do this you will need to make sure you get the right form and then see if any of the following information is on it. Some or all of it may be there and there may be even more that you can use that will be helpful in learning your genealogy.

·        Date and location of the ceremony. Here you will know when the wedding occurred and where. This way you will know if it was in a church or in the city hall.

 

·        Original names of the couple. This will give you more information and possibly a maiden name to use to further track your history.

 

·        The witnesses to the ceremony. These may be people you can look into to see if they can tell you more, or they may be relatives.

 

·        You can find the original address that was used. This way you will be able to track where they lived when married and then follow that back with real estate records.

Regardless of what you find, you can use these South Dakota marriage records to give you a lot of information or simply provide you with a piece of family history. This way you will be able to use it or hold onto it. You will be surprised by all of the different you will learn as a result of this one piece of paper that has so much family history and information right in front of you.

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