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Vital Records
Locating Birth, Marriage, and Death Records

United States Vital Records Information
Find out what vital records are available at the state and county level across the country.

Social Security Death Index
Use this database to search for death information for over 73,044,509 individuals whose deaths occurred after 1962.

Interment.net
Locate cemeteries and online cemetery transcriptions from across the country.

Death Indexes
Links to online death indexes by state and county. Included are indexes to death records, obituaries, probate indexes and cemetery & burial indexes.

US Funeral Homes Directory
Online directory listing all corporate owned funeral homes in the United States.

Western States Marriage Index
Indexes marriages for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

Individual State Records

Arizona

Arizona Death Certificates 1878-1953
Searchable indexes linked to actual certificate images!

Arizona Birth Certificates 1887-1928
Searchable indexes linked to actual certificate images!

California

California Death Records, 1940-1997
The source information for this resource is the California Department of Health Services Office of Health Information and Research Vital Statistics Section.

Georgia

Georgia Deaths 1914-1927
From Familysearch.org

Idaho

Idaho Death Index, 1911-1951
From the Brigham Young University- Idaho Web site.

Illinois

Cook County Clerk's Office Vital Records Online
Register for free and search birth, marriage, and death records. Once found, records may be downloaded instantly for a fee. The indexing is still a work in progress.

Illinois Deaths, Pre-1916 (In progress)

Illinois Deaths, 1916-1950
From the Illinois State Archives.

Illinois Marriages, 1763-1900
From the Illinois State Archives.

Indiana

Indiana State Marriage Index
Indiana marriages up to 1850.

Kentucky

Kentucky Vital Records Index
Indexes death records (1911-1992), marriages (1973-1993) and divorces (1973-1993).

Maine

Maine Vital Records
Marriages (1892-1966, 1976-1996) and deaths (1960-1996) are indexed by the Maine State Archives.

Michigan

Michigan Births 1867-1902
From Familysearch.org

Michigan Marriages 1868-1925
From Familysearch.org

Michigan Deaths 1867-1897
From Familysearch.org

Michigan Deaths 1867-1897.
From Michigan Department of Community Health

Minnesota

Minnesota Death Index, 1908-1996.

Minnesota Marriage Collection, 1958-2001
Access with free account at Ancestry.com

Nevada

Nevada Marriages, 1860-1987
Access with free account at Ancestry.com. Incomplete.

Ohio

Ohio Death Record Index , 1913-1937
From Ohio Historical Society.

Ohio Deaths 1908-1953
From Familysearch.org

West Virginia

West Virginia,
Birth, marriage and death records for selected counties and years. State death certificates for individuals from all 55 counties dating from 1917 through 1954.

West Virginia Births 1853-1930

West Virginia Marriages 1853-1970

West Virginia Deaths 1853-1970