How to Obtain Wisconsin Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates
This page provides information on obtaining copies of Wisconsin
birth certificates, Wisconsin marriage licenses, Wisconsin divorce
decrees and Wisconsin death records. There are also useful
links to past Wisconsin Vital Records for those of you conducting
family history research. General information about US vital
records can be viewed on this site's homepage
Wisconsin birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained
from the following government office:
WI Vital Records Office
1 West Wilson Street
P.O. Box 309 Madison,
WI 53701-0309
Wisconsin birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as
well as more information are available on the following
pages:
The Wisconsin Department of Health and family Services
may be contacted by phone on (608) 266-1371, (608) 266-1373
or online at http://dhfs.wisconsin.gov/
Remarks: State Office has scattered records earlier than
1857. Records before October 1, 1907, are very incomplete.
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Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Records Online via Vital
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Other Wisconsin Vital Records Resources
I have included these additional sites because they may
contain Wisconsin vital records (birth records, marriage records,
divorce records or death records) that you might find useful
if you are conducting genealogy research:
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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 Wisconsin Birth Records free online birth indexes for Wisconsin
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Wisconsin Marriage Records Online - a comprehensive collection
of many online marriage databases for Wisconsin indexed in
county order
USGenweb
Archives Project - Wisconsin 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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