How to Obtain District of Columbia Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of District of Columbia
birth certificates, District of Columbia marriage licenses, District of Columbia divorce
decrees and District of Columbia death records. There are also useful
links to past District of Columbia Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
District of Columbia birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Vital Records Division
825 North Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20002
District of Columbia birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The District of Columbia Department of Health may be contacted
by phone on (202) 671-5000 or online at http://www.dchealth.dc.gov/doh/site/default.asp
Remarks:
Office has death records since 1855 and birth records since
1874 but no death records were filed during the Civil War
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other District of Columbia Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain District of Columbia vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
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Vital Records Online search over 400 million records online
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Obituaries and Death Records - Over 3 Billion Names
search obituaries and death records in hundreds of newspapers
going back over 200 years
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District of Columbia Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for District of Columbia indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - District of Columbia USGenWeb is
an archive of free databases including vital and other records
such as marriages, church records, wills,censusesand cemetery
records.
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