How to Obtain Rhode Island Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Rhode Island
birth certificates, Rhode Island marriage licenses, Rhode Island divorce
decrees and Rhode Island death records. There are also useful
links to past Rhode Island Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Rhode Island birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Office of Vital Records
Rhode Island Department of Health
3 Capitol Hill, Room 101
Providence, RI 02908-5097
Rhode Island birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Rhode Island Department of Health may be contacted
by phone on (401) 222-2811 or online at http://www.health.ri.gov/
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Rhode Island Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Rhode Island 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
Rhode Island Birth Records free online birth indexes for Rhode Island
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Rhode Island Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Rhode Island indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - Rhode Island USGenWeb is an archive
of free databases including vital and other records such
as marriages, church records, wills,censusesand cemetery
records.
Vital
Records of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 in 1891, James N.
Arnold began publishing a series of vital records books
for the towns of Rhode Island. The series would go on to
include church records and newspaper records, ultimately
filling twenty-one volumes with information
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