Missouri Marriage & Divorce Vital Records
Jefferson City
Kansas City
69,704 sq mi
5988927
The Missouri Bureau of Vital Records does not maintain marriage or divorce certificates. The Bureau will issue a certified statement of a marriage or divorce from July 1, 1948, to the present, but certified copies of these Missouri vital records must be requested from the county recorder of deeds or the county clerk of the Circuit Court (in St. Louis at the city circuit court and in Kansas City at the civil records department). Marriage licenses were not required prior to June 1881, and these early Missouri marriages could be recorded at any courthouse of the couple's choosing. The Missouri State Archives has microfilms of county deed books that would include marriages, and some county circuit court records that would include divorces, but the Missouri State Archives does not currently provide an index for these early Missouri marriage records or Missouri divorce records. For more information on Missouri vital records, visit Missouri Birth & Death Vital Records