Hawaii Death Certificates

Ordering Hawaii Death Certificates Online

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General Information on Ordering Hawaii Death Certificates

Vital records (birth, death, marriage, and divorce certificates) for events that occurred in Hawaii are received and preserved by the Office of Health Status Monitoring, a unit of the Department of Health. In Hawaii, access to vital records is restricted by statute (HRS §338-18).

Certified copies of these records may be issued to authorized individuals and used for such diverse purposes as school entry, passports, Social Security participation, driver’s licenses, employment, sports participation, survivor’s benefits, proof of property rights, and other needs.

Any private individual or individual employed, endorsed, or sponsored by a governmental or private organization or agency, working on genealogy projects may apply for either inspection or issuance of copies of vital records on file with the Department of Health. Any applicant seeking inspection or issuance of copies of vital records of events that occurred seventy-five years or less prior to the current year must establish a direct and tangible interest in the records to be eligible for access to them (see Certified Copies for more information). An applicant need not establish a direct and tangible interest in vital records of events that occurred more than seventy-five years prior to the current year to gain access to these records.

Information for Genealogists

For assistance with your family history research, please do not contact the State of Hawaii. Instead please refer to the following websites for help:

• Hawaii Birth, Marriage and Death Records - online databases of primary records.

• Hawaii Adoption Registry - for help with locating adoptees and birth families from Hawaii.

• Hawaii Obituaries - find obituaries from Hawaii newspapers.

• Social Security Death Index - National database of deaths dating back to the 1940's.