How to Obtain Maryland Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Maryland
birth certificates, Maryland marriage licenses, Maryland divorce
decrees and Maryland death records. There are also useful
links to past Maryland Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Maryland birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Division of Vital Records
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
6550 Reisterstown Road
P.O. Box 68760
Baltimore, MD 21215-0020
Maryland birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene may
be contacted by phone on (410) 764-3038 or online at http://dhmh.maryland.gov/vsa/SitePages/Home.aspx
Remarks: State office has records since August 1898.
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Other Maryland Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Maryland vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
NewspaperObituaries.net - Maryland a
directory of thousands of obituaries with a page of
obituary indexes for each Maryland county
World's Largest Newspaper Archive
instantly search 12 million newspaper pages of birth, marriage, death and obituary announcements etc. from 1690 - today
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Birth, Marriage, Divorce and Death Records Online - Instant Results over 1 Billion records Maryland Birth Records free online birth indexes for Maryland
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Maryland Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Maryland indexed in
county order
USGenweb Archives
Project - Maryland USGenWeb is an archive of free databases
including vital and other records such as marriages, church
records, wills,censuses and cemetery records.
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