Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records

Freedmen's Bureau Marriage Records

Record Group 105.2 Records of the Commissioners Office, 1861-72
Textual Records:   Freedmen's marriage certificates, 1861-69.

• Register of Marriages in Arkansas - Register of Marriages in the Arkadelphia, Arkansas District during the months of August, September and October 1865; Marriage Report of Freedpeople in the Helena, Arkansas District for the months of July -December 1865 and January, March, April and July, 1866; Marriage Report of Freedpeople in the Devalls Bluff District for the Year Ending December 31, 1865; Marriage Report of Freedpeople in the Devalls Bluff District for April 1866; Marriage Report of Freedpeople in Ashley County, Arkansas for April, June, July and August 1866.

• Register of Marriages in Tennessee - Marriages performed primarily Gibson, Wilson and Shelby Counties; includes people from other states who married in Tennessee.

• Register of Marriages in Jacksonville, Florida, 1865

• Concordia Parish, Louisiana Marriage Certificate Returns - (transcription incomplete)

• Reports and Registers of Marriages in Washington D. C. - Marriages in Washington D. C. and Maryland

• Report of Marriages performed in Gloucester County, Virginia (undated)

Records of the Assistant Commissioner For the State of Mississippi
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869
Registers of Marriages of Freedmen Volume I - IV (still under construction)