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Mississippi Genealogy Databases
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Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi 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 Mississippi ancestors using Mississippi 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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Mississippi Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of Mississippi) Event: Birth Cost of copy: $12.00, Short form: $7.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since 1912. Full copies of birth certificates obtained within 1 year after the event are $7.00. Additional copies of same record ordered at same time are $3.00 each for birth; $2.00 each for death and marriage. For out-of-State requests only bank or postal money orders are accepted and should be made payable to Mississippi State Department of Health. Personal checks are accepted only for in-State requests. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (601) 576-7981. A recorded message may be reached on (601) 576-7450. Event: Death Cost of copy: $10.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since 1912. Full copies of birth certificates obtained within 1 year after the event are $7.00. Additional copies of same record ordered at same time are $3.00 each for birth; $2.00 each for death and marriage. For out-of-State requests only bank or postal money orders are accepted and should be made payable to Mississippi State Department of Health. Personal checks are accepted only for in-State requests. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (601) 576-7981. A recorded message may be reached on (601) 576-7450. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: $10.00 Address: Remarks: Statistical records only from January 1926 to July 1, 1938, and since January 1942. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: $3.00 Address: See remarks Remarks: Circuit Clerk in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: See remarks Address: Remarks: Records since January 1926. Certified copies are not available from State office. Index search only available at $6.00 for each 5-year increment. Book and page number for county record provided. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Chancery Clerk in county where divorce was granted. |
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