How to Obtain West Virginia Vital Records
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 Vital Records may be
obtained from the following government office:
Vital Registration Office
Room 165
350 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301-3701
West Virginia vital records 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:
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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West Virginia Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for West Virginia indexed in
county order
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West Virginia Birth, Marriage & Death Records 
online databases of vital records
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.
World
Vital Records search over 800
million US names including marriage records, divorces and
death records
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