The types of marriage records that can be found at the State Archives include the following:
- Marriage Licenses
- Marriage Applications
- Marriage Certificates
- Marriage Records or Registers
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- Note: Most Colorado marriage records DO NOT include the names of the parents of the bride and groom.
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Please see below for the types of records the Colorado State Archives holds for each county. If the record is located in a county not listed below, or for a year not listed below, please contact the Clerk and Recorder of the county in which the marriage record originated to obtain copies. Clerk and Recorder office contact information can be found at https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/Resources/CountyElectionOffices.html
Marriage Records held by the Colorado State Archives (listed by county)
Adams: | Certificates 1903-1975 |
Licenses 1902-1958 | |
Applications 1904-1912 | |
Arapahoe: | Certificates 1903-1966 |
Licenses 1903-1965 | |
Littleton, Colorado, Church Records, 1883-1982, Columbine Genealogical and Historical Society | |
Baca: | Applications 1889-1937 |
Licenses/Certificates 1889-1959 | |
Bent: | Licenses 1888-1968 |
Certificates 1916-1968 | |
Register 1888-1977 | |
Boulder: | Licenses 1870-1959 |
Certificates 1868-1891 | |
Licenses/Certificates 1874-1876 | |
Register 1881-1914 | |
Cheyenne: | Index of Marriages 1889-1920 |
Register 1889-1920 | |
Applications 1889-1920 | |
Licenses/Certificates 1889-1920 | |
Clear Creek: | Applications 1881-1955 |
Licenses 1881-1955 | |
Certificates 1864-1955 | |
Marriage Record 1864-1959 | |
Conejos: | License/Certificates 1946-1959, 1980-1990 |
Custer: | Register 1895-1901 |
Delta: | License/Certificates 1883-1960 |
Denver: | Certificates 1861-1952 |
License Application Stub Books 1874-1902 | |
Certificates in Filings of Clerk and Recorder 1860-1899 | |
Index of Marriages of Arapahoe County, CO, 1859-1901, Colorado Genealogical Society | |
Douglas: | Index of Marriages 1881-1903 |
Licenses/Certificates 1868-1959, 1982-1984 | |
Register 1864-1925 | |
Elbert: | Index of Marriages 1898-1935 |
Applications 1959-1967 | |
Licenses 1893-1922 | |
Certificates 1898-1935 | |
Record of Marriages 1898-1959 | |
Register 1881-1886 | |
Applications/Licenses 1893-1922 | |
Marriage License Book 1874-1898 | |
Record of Marriage Licenses and Certificates 1874-1959 | |
El Paso: | Applications and Licenses 1863-1882 |
Certificates 1861-1903 | |
Licenses/Certificates 1882-1917 | |
Register 1925-1932 | |
Fremont: | Licenses/Certificates 1874-1876 |
Garfield: | Applications/Licenses/Certificates 1884-1959 |
Gilpin: | Index of Marriages 1864-1944 |
Applications 1881-1930 | |
Licenses/Certificates 1864-1881, 1886-1944 | |
Gunnison: | Licenses/Certificates 1881-1893 |
Applications 1881-1908 | |
Hinsdale: | Certificate Record with Index 1876-1881 |
Certificates with Index 1881-1957 | |
Register 1881-1965 | |
Jefferson: | Marriage Index 1868-1978 |
Certificates or Licenses/Certificates 1868-1976 | |
Kit Carson: | License Stubs 1889-1903 |
Register 1889-1959 | |
Certificates 1889-1936 | |
Index to Licenses 1889-1959 | |
Index of Marriages 1929-1982 | |
Lake: | Certificates 1874-1888 |
Register 1880-1888 | |
Index of Marriages, 1869-1989, compiled by Nancy Manly | |
Larimer: | Applications/Licenses/Certificates 1867-1959 |
Certificates 1865-1896 | |
Marriage Record Book 1865-1896 | |
Index of Marriages 1858-1910, Larimer County Genealogical Society | |
Logan: | Marriage Record 1887-1972 |
Marriage Record Index 1887-1912 | |
Mesa: | License Applications 1883-1994 |
Montrose: | Register with Index 1911-1965 |
Morgan: | Affidavits/Licenses/Certificates 1889-1958 |
Otero: | Register 1889-1902 |
Record of Certificates 1889-1909 | |
License/Certificates 1902-1916 | |
License Stubs 1889-1893 | |
Application Stub Books 1896-1911 | |
Ouray: | Application/Licenses 1901-1959 |
Consent of Parents or Guardian 1883-1900 | |
Licenses/Certificates 1881-1901 | |
Applications 1881-1901 | |
Phillips: | Index of Marriage Licenses 1874-1908 |
Marriage Register 1889-1995 | |
Pitkin: | Application/Licenses 1882-1959 |
Applications 1890-1984 | |
Register 1884-1901 | |
Pueblo: | Certificates 1865 |
Licenses/Certificates 1963-1964 | |
Record of Marriages (County Court) 1905-1971 | |
Saguache: | Certificates 1874-1959 |
Applications 1903-1983 | |
Register 1881-1914 | |
Index to Certificates 1874-1957 | |
Sedgwick: | License/Certificates 1889-1973 |
Marriage Register 1889-1994 | |
Washington: | Index of Marriages 1959-1977 |
Licenses/Certificates 1887-1992 | |
Weld: | Index to Certificates 1864-1899, Weld County Genealogical Society |
Yuma: | Marriage Record 1889-1959 |
License/Certificates 1904-1952 | |
Index of Marriages 1889-1950 |