Remember that information found on the Internet is not always reliable and correct. Once you locate family information, verify everything by checking documentation and sources. Researching your family's history requires many hours of research, documentation and reading. Marriage records are located in the county courthouse in the county where the marriage occurred. One way to determine a county location would be to find the individual on the federal census at the time of marriage and check that county's records.
Most counties have indexes of both the bride's name and the name of the groom.
Using these indexes, the date and location of the actual marriage certificate can be obtained. The soundex is the indexing system that was used for the federal census between the years 1880-1920. The soundex uses the last name of a family and assigns a code to the name. The codes are arranged numerically and then alphabetically by the given name of the head of household. A coding system was devised to determine codes for each consonant in a surname.