How to Obtain Washington Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Washington
birth certificates, Washington marriage licenses, Washington divorce
decrees and Washington death records. There are also useful
links to past Washington Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Washington birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Department of Health
Center for Health Statistics
P.O. Box 9709
Olympia, WA 98507-9709
Washington birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Washington State Department of Health may be contacted
by phone on (360) 236-4300 or online at http://www.doh.wa.gov/
Remarks: State office has records since July 1907
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Other Washington Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Washington vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
NewspaperObituaries.net - Washington a
directory of thousands of obituaries with a page of
obituary indexes for each Washington county
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Vital Records Online search over 1 Billion records online
World's Largest Newspaper Archive
instantly search 12 million newspaper pages of birth, marriage, death and obituary announcements etc. from 1690 - today Washington Birth Records free online birth indexes for Washington
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Washington Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Washington indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - Washington 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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