How to Obtain Virginia Vital Records
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Virginia
birth certificates, Virginia marriage licenses, Virginia divorce
decrees and Virginia death records. There are also useful
links to past Virginia Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Virginia Vital Records may be obtained
from the following government office:
Division of Vital Records
P.O. Box 1000
Richmond, VA 23218-1000
Virginia vital records order forms as well as more information
are available on the following pages:
The Virginia State Department of Health may be contacted
by phone on (804) 662-6200 or online at http://www.vdh.state.va.us/
Remarks: State office has records from January 1853 to
December 1896 and since June 14, 1912. Only the cities of
Hampton, Newport News and Norfolk have records between 1896
and June 14, 1912
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Virginia Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Virginia 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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Virginia Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Virginia indexed in
county order
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Virginia Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
USGenweb Archives
Project - Virginia 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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