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Searching for Missouri birth records, Missouri census records, Missouri marriage records, or Missouri death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree. |
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Missouri Genealogy Databases
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Missouri Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Missouri vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Missouri vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Missouri ancestors using Missouri census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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Missouri Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Missouri) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: $10.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since January 1910. Certified copies of most Missouri birth and death records are also available from local county health department or the St. Louis City or Kansas City Health Departments. For details, please contact these offices directly. If event occurred in St. Louis (City), St. Louis County, or Kansas City before 1910, write to the city or county Health Department. Copies of these records are $10.00 each in St. Louis City and St. Louis County. In Kansas City, the fee is $6.00 for the first copy and $3.00 for each additional copy ordered at same time. Computer issued copies containing the state certification are $10.00 each. Check or money order should be made payable to Missouri Department of Health. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees on birth and death records, the telephone number is (573) 751-6400. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at Missouri Department of Health. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: No fee Address: Remarks: Indexes since July 1948. Correspondent will be referred to appropriate Recorder of Deeds in county where license was issued. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Recorder of Deeds in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: No fee Address: Remarks: Indexes since July 1948. Certified copies are not available from State Health Department. Inquiries will be forwarded to appropriate office. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Clerk of Circuit Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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