The following excerpt is from HoustonPress.com.
Access to Harris County’s marriage records took a leap into the 21st century on Wednesday, as the Harris County Clerk’s Office announced it had added more than 1.2 million marriage license records to its website, making it possible to view copies of them and purchase them online.
All Harris County marriage licenses issued since 2008 were already available online; The 1.2 million-plus licenses that were added to the county’s clerk’s website represent all of the licenses issued from 1944 through 2007, a project that closed “a gap of about 64 years” in the county’s digital marriage records. Plain and certified copies of all of those marriage licenses can now be bought with just a few clicks through the office’s online sales portal.
“We maintain records, but we’ve got to come out of the old ways of maintaining these records so that the preservation of and the quality of these documents are good and that they’re presentable,” said Harris County Clerk Teneshia Hudspeth in an interview with the Houston Press.