How to Obtain Texas Vital Records
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Texas
birth certificates, Texas marriage licenses, Texas divorce
decrees and Texas death records. There are also useful
links to past Texas Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Texas Vital Records may be obtained
from the following government office:
Bureau of Vital Statistics
Texas Department of Health
P.O. Box 12040
Austin, TX 78711-2040
Texas vital records order forms as well as more information
are available on the following pages:
The Texas Department of Health may be contacted by phone
on (512) 458-7111 or online at http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/vs/
Remarks:
State office has records since 1903
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Texas Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Texas 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
Search
Texas Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Texas indexed in
county order
Search
Texas Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
USGenweb Archives
Project - Texas 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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