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North Dakota Genealogy Databases
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North Dakota 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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota ancestors using North Dakota 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. |
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North Dakota Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of North Dakota) Event: Birth Cost of copy: $7.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had some records since July 1893. Years from 1894 to 1920 are incomplete. Additional copies of birth records are $4.00 each. Copies are generally mailed within 2-3 working days after request is received. Money order should be made payable to ND Department of Health. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (701) 328-2360. This is an automated attendant with a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at ND Department of Health. Event: Death Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had some records since July 1893. Years from 1894 to 1920 are incomplete. Additional copies of birth records are $4.00 each. Copies are generally mailed within 2-3 working days after request is received. Money order should be made payable to ND Department of Health. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (701) 328-2360. This is an automated attendant with a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at ND Department of Health. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Records since July 1925. Requests for earlier records will be forwarded to appropriate office. Additional copies are $2.00 each. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: Remarks: Clerk of District Court in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: See remarks Address: Remarks: Index of records since July 1949. Some items may be verified. Certified copies are not available from State Health Department. Inquiries will be forwarded to appropriate office. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Clerk of District Court in county where divorce was granted. |
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