How to Obtain South Carolina Vital Records
This page provides information on obtaining copies of South Carolina
birth certificates, South Carolina marriage licenses, South Carolina divorce
decrees and South Carolina death records. There are also useful
links to past South Carolina Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
South Carolina Vital Records may be
obtained from the following government office:
Office of Vital Records
SC DHEC
2600 Bull Street
Columbia, SC 29201
South Carolina vital records order forms as well as more
information are available on the following pages:
The South Carolina State Department of Health may be contacted
by phone on (803) 898-3630 or online at http://www.scdhec.net/vr
Remarks:
State office has records since January 1915
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other South Carolina Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain South Carolina vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
Social
Security Death Index 
search over 80 million names - The Social Security Death
Index (SSDI) is a database that contains the names of deceased
persons who were assigned Social Security numbers and whose
deaths were reported to the SSA. These records usually include
a full name, birth and death dates, and last known residence
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South Carolina Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for South Carolina indexed in
county order
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South Carolina Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
USGenweb Archives
Project - South Carolina USGenWeb is an archive of free databases
including vital and other records such as marriages, church
records, wills,censusesand cemetery records.
World
Vital Records search over 800
million US names including marriage records, divorces and
death records
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