{"id":123,"date":"2017-09-15T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/?p=123"},"modified":"2017-09-30T17:36:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T17:36:48","slug":"how-to-find-out-if-someone-is-married-without-paying-a-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/how-to-find-out-if-someone-is-married-without-paying-a-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Find Out If Someone is Married Without Paying a Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re here because you want to find out if someone is married without having to pay. In most cases, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">find a marriage record online<\/a> totally free by accessing public marriage records. Some Clerk&#8217;s Offices will charge a search or copy fee and in some states and counties, you will not be granted access to any marriage record.<\/p>\n<p>First off in order to find out if someone is married, you will need:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1.) The person&#8217;s name or partners name (maiden name or married name)<\/p>\n<p>2.) Confirm the county where you believe the marriage took place and then search the county clerk&#8217;s office for a record of the marriage. In most cases, it will be free to search for a marriage record but will cost if you want a copy of the certificate.<\/p>\n<p>3.) In some cases, you will need a range of dates when you believe the marriage took place in order to search Clerk and Vital record databases.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, say I want to find out if someone is married in Grant County Indiana. I will then go to Google and type in &#8220;Grant County Indiana Marriage Records&#8221; &#8220;Grant County Vital Records&#8221; &#8220;Grant County Indiana Clerks Office&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The search I did was &#8220;Grant County Indiana Marriage Records&#8221; I am then shown a list of official websites (usually ending in .gov or .us)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-126 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grant-county-marriage-records.png\" alt=\"grant county marriage records\" width=\"904\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grant-county-marriage-records.png 904w, https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grant-county-marriage-records-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/grant-county-marriage-records-768x458.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 904px) 100vw, 904px\" \/>I&#8217;m then going to click on the obvious link that says &#8220;Search Marriage Licenses&#8221; Here&#8217;s what I get when I click on that <a href=\"https:\/\/public.courts.in.gov\/mlpl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/search-marriage-licenses.png\" alt=\"search marriage licenses\" width=\"1013\" height=\"904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/search-marriage-licenses.png 1013w, https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/search-marriage-licenses-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/search-marriage-licenses-768x685.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1013px) 100vw, 1013px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I now see that Indiana has a public lookup for each county. I will search for this marriage record by name, year and county that issued the marriage license. Once I type in the information that is needed a result will be returned with the applicant&#8217;s name, marriage date and the county in which the marriage license was issued.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/marriage-search-results.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"977\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/marriage-search-results.png 977w, https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/marriage-search-results-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/marriage-search-results-768x226.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 977px) 100vw, 977px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Easy enough and it was free to find out if someone got married. Not all states and counties will be this easy but a lot of them will be. You just have to know where to go. You can view an entire list of <a href=\"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/free-marriage-records-search-online\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marriage record searches<\/a> that will make your marriage record check much easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re here because you want to find out if someone is married without having to pay. In most cases, you can find a marriage record online totally free by accessing public marriage records. Some Clerk&#8217;s Offices will charge a search or copy fee and in some states and counties, you will not be granted access [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freebackgroundcheck.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}