How to Obtain West Virginia Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of West Virginia
birth certificates, West Virginia marriage licenses, West Virginia divorce
decrees and West Virginia death records. There are also useful
links to past West 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
West Virginia birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
Vital Registration Office
Room 165
350 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
West Virginia birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources
may be contacted by phone on (304) 558-2931 or online at
http://www.wvdhhr.org/
Remarks: State office has records since January 1917
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other West Virginia Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain West Virginia vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
Search
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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West Virginia Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for West Virginia indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - West Virginia 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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