Marriage Bonds: How to Use Them to Build Family Relationships

Most genealogists are quite familiar with marriage licenses. Depending on where you live, they may or may not contain quite a bit of information. However, if your ancestors resided in the south or some mid-Atlantic states throughout the nineteenth century, you have another record set to examine that may help you to link families when marriage licenses are limited. These are marriage bonds, and we’ll take a look this week at what they are and why they may be useful to you in your research.