Is there a safe online website to search for marriage certificates?

I’m trying to trace a long-lost friend who I believe may have passed on a couple of years ago. However, she married a long time ago and I don’t know her married name. I’d like to try to find her marriage certificate online, but searches turn up highly suspect-looking websites, and I’m leery of providing these sites anything like a credit card number.

Can anyone recommend an un-skeevy website? Thanks for any help.

Texas has a decent online free search engine for marriages in that state. Not sure about others though.

http://www.genlookups.com/texas_marriages/

Do you know what county in what state she would have been married? If so you need to find that county’s probate court’s Web site and search for her maiden name.

Will they release that information to non-family members?

Absolutely - it’s public record.