Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Vice President and Newsletter Editor, John White, the Maryland State Archives has now made available for viewing at home in your jammies Prince George's County Marriage Licenses from 1777 to 1851. We truly appreciate your efforts on this, John. If there are other records you would like us to encourage MSA to make available without a visit to Annapolis, please let us know the specific record group of interest. You may leave us a message through the Contact page of this website, or email newsletter@pgcgs.org.
To access these newly available records, visit https://www.msa.maryland.gov, then click on Research Guides from the list on the left; select Marriage Records, then select the county of marriage (Prince George's), pick 1950 and Earlier. Under Marriage Licenses, pick CM-783. On the next screen, click on the Link for the time period of interest. Marriages licenses come up on hand-written pages with years at the top and licenses are listed by date. You'll have to scroll down or even advance the page to find where you need to be. If you click on the box with the number beside the title "Viewing" you can pick a new image number instead of scrolling page by page through unnecessary lists.
These records aren't indexed, but you can find an index on both ancestry.com and familysearch.org. The title on both websites is, "Index of Marriage Licenses, Prince George's County, Maryland, 1777-1886." Search there first to find the date, the use the MSA records to download a copy of the image, which is unavailable from the index, although the information contained is basically the same.
Oh, and at some point you'll need to click on a box to convince the computer you aren't a robot.
Happy researching! Let us know how you fare.