{"id":21,"date":"2023-12-01T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T18:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:16:29","slug":"marriage-certificate-record","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/marriage-certificate-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage record (extract from marriage record)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a civil act record<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<dl id=\"definition1\">\n<dt><strong>Marriage record<\/strong><\/dt>\n<dd>\u2014 is a record made by an official, an employee of the Civil Registry Office or an employee of the House of Justice of Georgia about a marriage, indicating all surnames, first names, dates of birth of the spouses, and other circumstances of the case (for example, data on divorce before the marriage).<\/dd>\n<dd>A marriage record in Georgia (and other countries) is made on the day of the marriage. Later, in many countries, changes are made to it if any occurred. For example, a change of surname or divorce, death of one of the spouses.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n\n\n<p><!-- Opening a new article --><\/p>\n<article>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What does a marriage record look like<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Photo (scan) of a copy of a civil act record of marriage from the Civil Registry Office:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" id=\"Copy-of-civil-act-record\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/documents.ge\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Marriage-Extract-Nationality-Georgia-Documents.gif\" alt=\"Copy of a marriage record (marriage certificate) from Georgia. Issued by the House of Justice or the Civil Registry Office\" class=\"wp-image-408 lazyload\" title=\"Copy of a civil act record. Document from the Civil Registry Office of Georgia. Data: marriage\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">An old-style marriage record, like a birth record, may contain data on the nationality of the spouses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<p><!-- Closing the article tag here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Opening a new article --><\/p>\n<article>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What data does a marriage record contain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This document is a marriage certificate issued in the Georgian SSR. It contains the following data:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Date of marriage registration<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marriage record number<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Place of marriage registration<\/strong>: (the specific Civil Registry Office department and city are indicated).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Surname, first name, patronymic of the groom and bride<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Date of birth of the groom and bride<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Place of birth of the groom and bride<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Place of residence of the groom and bride<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nationality of the groom and bride<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Marital status before entering into marriage<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Information about the identity document<\/strong> (passport or other document).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Information about the conclusion or dissolution of previous marriages<\/strong> (if any).<\/li>\n\n\n<li><strong>Signatures of the groom and bride<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>It should be noted that not all data was always entered into civil act records. Therefore, when a copy of a civil act record or an extract from a civil act record is issued, some data may be missing, for example, nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/article>\n<p><!-- Closing the article tag here --><\/p>\n\n\n<p><strong>It is impossible to obtain an original civil act record in Georgia.<\/strong>&nbsp;It is stored in its original form in the archives of the Civil Registry Offices or the House of Justice of Georgia, archives of Synagogues, and local archives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You can order and receive only a copy of a marriage record or an extract from a civil act record (archival extract).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A copy of a civil act record is not always the best option, as it may be carelessly filled out, have a worn appearance, be damaged, be composite, or be illegible. A copy of a civil act record is literally a copy of the civil act book \u2014 the corresponding pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>It is best to order a printed extract from a civil act record<\/strong>&nbsp;or archive on an official form. Such a document is easy to read and has obvious characteristics of a document.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact our agency to order and receive a copy of a civil act record or an extract from a civil act record, or an archive record of marriage.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a civil act record Marriage record \u2014 is a record made by an official, an employee of the Civil Registry Office or an employee of the House of Justice of Georgia about a marriage, indicating all surnames, first names, dates of birth of the spouses, and other circumstances of the case (for example, &#8230; <a title=\"Marriage record (extract from marriage record)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/marriage-certificate-record\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Marriage record (extract from marriage record)\">\u0427\u0438\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0434\u0430\u043b\u0435\u0435<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/documents.ge\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}