Search Delaware Birth Records - Delaware Marriage Records - Delaware Death Records - Delaware Census Records.

Searching for Delaware birth records, Delaware census records, Delaware marriage records, or Delaware death records? How about a free genealogy search? Find help for your family history search and building your family tree.

Search Over 6 Billion Names

Enter a name:

First Name

Last Name

Filter your search by:

Keyword(s)
Record Type
Locality

Delaware Genealogy Databases

Click Here to List ALL Delaware Databases Delaware Birth Records. Delaware Death Records. Delaware Marriage Records. Delaware Vital Records. Delaware Geneology Databases. Delaware Genealogy Records. Delaware Geneology Records. Delaware Records. Delaware Census Records.

List All Databases

•	Delaware Pensioners, 1835 Delaware soldiers covered under various pensions acts in the early 1800s
•	Kent County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800 Listing of over 17,000 probate records from Kent County, Delaware between 1680 and 1800
•	New Castle County, Delaware Wills, 1682-1800 Listing of wills filed in New Castle County, Delaware between 1682 and 1800
•	Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800 Compilation of probate records and will abstracts from Sussex County, Delaware between 1680 and 1800
•	Delaware Census, 1790-1890 U.S. Federal Census indexes (and other related census indexes) for Delaware from 1790 to 1890.
•	First Settlers of "The Forks of The Delaware" and Their Descendants, 1760-1852
•	Ancestry World Tree Millions of references to lineage linked individuals and families identifying research on given family lines.
•	PERiodical Source Index (PERSI) Index to articles written in over 5,000 genealogical publications
•	Social Security Death Index Social Security Administration Death Master File
•	American Civil War Soldiers Military records of individual Civil War soldiers
•	Slave Narratives Impressive collection of interviews of former slaves in the United States
•	Civil War Pension Index Index to and images of pension cards of Civil War veterans in the United States.

View More Databases

Delaware Genealogy Help

Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century.

There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the Delaware vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once Delaware vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your Delaware ancestors using Delaware census records.

Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them.

Delaware Vital Records Information
(How to contact the Vital Records Department of Delaware)

Event: Birth or death

Cost of copy: $6.00

Address:
Office of Vital Statistics
Division of Public Health
P.O. Box 637
Dover, DE 19903

Remarks: State office has death records since 1958 and birth records since 1926. Additional copies of the same record requested at the same time are $4.00 each. For previous years, write to Archives Hall of Records, Dover, DE (302) 739-5318.

Check or money order should be made payable to Office of Vital Statistics. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (302) 739-4721.

Event: Marriage

Cost of copy: $6.00

Address:
Office of Vital Statistics
Division of Public Health
P.O. Box 637
Dover, DE 19903

Remarks: Records since 1958. Additional copies of the same record requested at the same time are $4.00 each.

Event: Divorce (State)

Cost of copy: See remarks

Address:
Office of Vital Statistics
Division of Public Health
P.O. Box 637
Dover, DE 19903

Remarks: Records since 1935. Inquiries will be forwarded to appropriate office. Fee for search and verification of essential facts of divorce is $6.00 for each 5-year period searched. Certified copies are not available from State office.

Event: Divorce (county)

Cost of copy: $2.00

Address: See remarks

Remarks: Prothonotary in county where divorce was granted up to 1975. For divorces granted after 1975 the parties concerned should contact Family Court in county where divorce was granted.