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South Dakota Genealogy Databases

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

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•	South Dakota Census, 1870-90 U.S. Federal Census indexes (and other related census indexes) for South Dakota from 1870 to 1890.
•	South Dakota State Census, 1895 The State Census for South Dakota in 1895
•	1890 U.S. Federal Census Fragment Remaining fragments of the destroyed 1890 U.S. Federal Census.
•	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.

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South 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 South 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 South 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 South Dakota ancestors using South 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.

South Dakota Vital Records Information
(How to contact the Vital Records Department of South Dakota)

Event: Birth or death

Cost of copy: $7.00

Address:
Vital Records
State Department of Health
600 East Capitol Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501-2536

Remarks: State office has records filed after July 1905.

Money order should be made payable to South Dakota Department of Health. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees the telephone number is (605) 773-4961. This will be a recorded message. Information on how to obtain certified copies is also available via the internet at http://www.state.sd.us/doh/vitalrec/vital.htm.

Event: Marriage

Cost of copy: $7.00

Address:
Vital Records
State Department of Health
600 East Capitol Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501-2536

Remarks: Records since July 1905. Marriages can also be obtained from the County Register of Deeds where the marriage occurred.

Event: Divorce

Cost of copy: $7.00

Address:
Vital Records
State Department of Health
600 East Capitol Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501-2536

Remarks: Records since July 1905. Divorces can also be obtained from the Clerk of Courts in the county where the divorce was granted.