subject: The Importance Of A Duplicate Marriage Certificate [print this page] Very few things are really practical if we have more than one of them. In terms of duplicates, it is practical to have a copy of a house key, car key and a copy also of important documents. These important legal documents can either be a birth certificates, a death certificate or marriage certificate to name a few.
Duplicate copies of important documents cannot be stressed enough in terms of importance and convenience. Those of us who have originals of such kind of documents should endeavour to have duplicates made so as to lessen the wear and tear on the original. This is particularly important for documents that have a sentimental value over the long run.
Unfortunately some of us will lose the originals, either due to a calamity, negligence or just plain forgetfulness. Then we will need to get a duplicate sooner or later for these certificates are part and parcel of our identity and who we are. In the case of marriage certificates, they are needed for insurance claims and policies, renewals of passports and a myriad other things, usually legal in nature.
Certificates of marriage are great sources of finding out the roots of a person. Having these provides a point of reference for future studies on heredity. Apart from this they are strong proof of the identity of a person or several persons.
Marriage certificates likewise are a gold mine for those trying to establish inheritance and also to fill in spots on the family tree. They establish points of focus and anchors on genealogy researches. Likewise they strengthen and give more support to the identity of one person or several persons.
In terms of hereditary lines, marriage certificates are good in establishing the ancestry of people on the spear and distaff side. In other words, the hereditary relatives of a person on the father or mother side are looked at. For most people if not all, it is important to know who our grandparents were, great grandparents and so forth.
To facilitate searches of marriage and birth records, most companies have set up a service to do the leg work for you. Some are affiliated with travel agencies where the need for such records occur when getting a new passport or renewing it. Others do it as a service for personal record keeping. However, most of the people can avail of this service to get copies of lost records without doing all the legwork. This is especially helpful if one has already moved far from his or her place of original domicile.
The renewed interest in finding out what a specific family tree looks like also has created a market for finding older certificates at civil registrars a lucrative business. Websites abound like ancestryshop.co.uk where you can order specific older marriage certificates either for your own use or for record keeping purposes. Through such services, the act of getting copies of lost or old certificates has become less tedious and less time consuming.
