How to Obtain North Carolina Vital Records

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How to Obtain North Carolina Birth, Marriage and Death Certificates

This page provides information on obtaining copies of North Carolina birth certificates, North Carolina marriage licenses, North Carolina divorce decrees and North Carolina death records. There are also useful links to past North Carolina Vital Records for those of you conducting family history research. General information about US vital records can be viewed on the Vital Records Index Page

North Carolina birth, marriage and death certificates may be obtained from the following government office:

NC Vital Records
1903 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1903

North Carolina birth, marriage and death certificate order forms as well as more information are available on the following pages:

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services may be contacted by phone on (919) 733-3526 or online at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/w2w/north_carolina.htm

More North Carolina Vital Records Resources

Birth, Marriage and Death Historical Record Collections at FamilySearch.org
 over 700 million records online, search North Carolina birth, marriage and death certificate databases from the 1800s and 1900s

Vitalcheck Express Certificate Service
order copies of North Carolina birth, marriage and death certificates online

Vital Records Search at Ancestry.com
search births, marriages, deaths, divorces, obituaries and wills; a database of over 9 Billion records