How to Obtain Iowa Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Iowa
birth certificates, Iowa marriage licenses, Iowa divorce
decrees and Iowa death records. There are also useful
links to past Iowa Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Iowa birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Iowa Department of Public Health
Bureau of Vital Records
Lucas State Office Building
321 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0075
Iowa birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Iowa Department of Public Health may be contacted by
phone on (515) 281-4944 or online at http://www.idph.state.ia.us/
Remarks: State office has records since July 1880
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Iowa Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Iowa 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
Iowa Birth Records free online birth indexes for Iowa
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Iowa Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Iowa indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - Iowa 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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