How to Obtain South Carolina Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
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 birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Office of Vital Records
SC DHEC
2600 Bull Street
Columbia, SC 29201
South Carolina birth, marriage and death certificate 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.dhhs.state.sc.us
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:
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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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South Carolina Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for South Carolina indexed in
county order
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.
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