Missouri Vital Records: Difference between revisions

[[United States Vital Records|Vital Records]] consist of [[United States Birth Records|births]], adoptions, [[United States Marriage Records|marriages]], divorces, and [[United States Death Records|deaths]] recorded on registers, certificates, and documents. [[Locating United States Vital Records|United States Vital Records]] has additional research guidance on researching and using vital records. A copy or an extract of most original records can be purchased from the [http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/Missouri.htm Missouri Vital Records State Department of Health] or the County Clerk's office of the county where the event occurred.  

|-

| width="44%" | __TOC__  

Missouri's civil records start the following years:  

|-

|-

|-

|-

|}

The following is a list of online resources useful for locating Missouri Vital Records which consist of [[United States Birth Records|births]], adoptions, [[United States Marriage Records|marriages]], divorces, and [[United States Death Records|deaths]]. Check [[Missouri_Vital_Records|Missouri Vital Records&nbsp;Online]] for more information about the resources listed below. Most online resources for Missouri Vital Records are indexes. After locating a person in an index always consult the original record to [[Contradictions and discrepancies|confirm the information]] in the index. '''<br>'''

*[http://userdb.rootsweb.ancestry.com/regional.html#Missouri Missouri Databases] listed on [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ Rootsweb.com]&nbsp;- Free  

*USGenWeb.org [http://mogenweb.com/ Missouri Site] - Free  

'''Bureau of Vital Records'''<br>P.O. Box 570<br>Jefferson City, MO 65102-0570<br>Telephone: 314-761-6387 (births)<br>Telephone: 314-751-6376 (deaths) <br>Internet: [http://www.dhss.mo.gov/BirthAndDeathRecords/index.html Department of Health and Senior Services Bureau of Vital Records.] maintains Missouri birth, death, marriage and divorce records.  

<br>

Most pre-1850 marriages in Missouri have been transcribed in publications such as the following:  

The Bureau of Vital Records (see address above) has an index to marriage records from July 1948 to the present.  

Divorce proceedings have been filed with a court of common pleas, a circuit court, or the state legislature. Most divorce records can be obtained by contacting the appropriate circuit court clerk in the county where the plaintiff resided. The Family History Library has some of these court records, which include divorce information. The Bureau of Vital Records has divorce records from 1948 to the present.  

== Adoption Records  ==

=== Research Guides  ===

=== More Online Links  ===

== References  ==