This page contains our database of pre-1870 marriages and our collection of indexes from marriage book volumes 1 through 291 (1870-1924).

District of Columbia Marriage Licenses 1811 - 1870

A listing of marriages that occured before 1870. The entries only list the names of the registrants and the date of the marriage. 

Please note that there are no physical records associated with marriage entries from before 1870.

Marriage Volume Indexes 1870-1924

Marriage book volumes are arranged chronologically.

The last names of the registrants are listed alphabetically within the indexes as [last name]-[last name] followed by a page number.