Kentucky Death Certificates

Ordering Kentucky Death Certificates Online

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General Information on Ordering Kentucky Death Certificates

The Vital Statistics office has on file death certificates from 1911 to the present. You can purchase a certified death certificate by phone, by mail, off the Internet or by visiting the office. Please allow up to approximately 30 working days for processing of all type of certificates when ordered through the mail.

The Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics can not by law, provide free information from records, do a genealogical search, or look to see if a certificate is on file without a completed application form and the proper fee submitted. The Kentucky Vital Statistics office will, upon receiving the application and fee, do a search of the records and if a certificate is on file, a certified copy will be mailed to you. The fee is for the search of the records and no refunds will be issued if a certificate can not be found. The office does not issue un-certified or photo copies of certificates .

Information needed to obtain a death certificate:

• Full name of the deceased
• The month, day and year of death
• The county of death

Information for Genealogists

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

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

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

• Kentucky Obituaries - find obituaries from Kentucky newspapers.

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