Missouri Death Certificates

Ordering Missouri Death Certificates Online

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General Information on Ordering Missouri Death Certificates

The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Bureau of Vital Records, has certificates of Missouri births, deaths, and fetal death reports from January 1, 1910, to the present with some delayed filings prior to 1910. Note: in the State of Missouri, vital records are not open to the public.

For requesting vital records without an application, please include the following information:

• Full name at birth, death, or fetal death
• Date of birth, death, or fetal delivery
• Place of birth, death, or fetal delivery
• For birth records and fetal death records please provide both parents' names including mother's maiden name
• Your relationship to the person whose record is being requested
• Explain reason for requesting the record

Certified copies of most Missouri birth and death records are also available from the local county health agencies. Certified copies of a marriage license or a divorce decree are available from the Recorder of Deeds or Circuit Clerks in the county of the event. For further details contact these offices direct.

Information for Genealogists

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

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

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

• Missouri Obituaries - find obituaries from Missouri newspapers.

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