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Missouri Bureau of Vital Records

United States Missouri  Cole  Archives and Libraries  

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Contact Information
E-mail: [mailto:VitalRecordsInfo@health.mo.gov VitalRecordsInfo@health.mo.gov]

Address:


 * Street address: 930 Wildwood Dr. Mailing address:  P.O. Box 570 Jefferson City, MO 65102-0570

Telephone: 573-751-6387

Hours and holidays:


 * Walk-in service: Monday-Friday 8:30-4:30 (same day service is not guaranteed)
 * Telephone service: Monday-Friday 8-5  (Central Time Zone)
 * Holiday closings

Map and public transportation:


 * Google map:  Missouri Bureau of Vital Records
 * Public transportation:  The JEFFTRAN bus Capital Mall Route stops across the street from the Bureau of Vital Records (Department of Health) building on Wildwood Drive.

Internet sites and databases:


 * Birth, Death, Marriage and Divorce Information requesting certificates, corrections, putative father registry, out of state, electronic vital records, hours, research requests, and obtaining records locally.
 * Application for a birth or death certificate form (.pdf).
 * Application for a marriage or divorce certificate form (.pdf).
 * Vital Chek expedited certificate request service for an extra fee.

Collection Description
Central registry of Missouri births, deaths, and fetal deaths since 1910; marriages and divorces since 1948.

Alternate Repositories
If you cannot visit or find a source via the , a similar source may be available at one of the following.

Overlapping Collections


 * National Archives at Kansas City federal censuses 1790–1930; selected military service indexes, pension indexes, passenger lists, naturalizations, photos, adoptions, vital records, land, and Indian records.

Similar Collections


 * Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City, has court, land, military, death records, federal censuses, county and municipal records, photos, penitentiary, and manuscript records. Birth and death record index since 1883 is online; birth records 1883-1895; marriages 1827-1937.

Neighboring Collections


 * Clayton History Society about them, support options, history, and historic places.
 * Concordia Historical Institute, St. Louis, Department of Archives and History of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.
 * Episcopal Diocese of Missouri Archives, St. Louis, a library, extensive document and photograph collections, and parish registers.
 * Missouri History Museum Library, St. Louis, has regional history sources, St. Louis, Missouri, the Mississippi and Missouri Valleys, the Louisiana Purchase, American West: indexes, guides, catalogs, photos, genealogy workshops. Many records of Missouri settlers from Illinois.
 * National Personnel Records Center (NPRC), St. Louis, federal government employee and military personnel records starting 1917.
 * Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Office of Archives and Records parish christenings, confirmations, marriages, and deaths.
 * St. Louis County Circuit Clerk, Clayton, has court records since 1876, and divorce records.
 * St. Louis County Medical Examiner, St. Louis, suspicious deaths.
 * St. Louis County Recorder of Deeds, Clayton, has marriages and land records since 1876, and military discharges. Marriage, court, and land records of St. Louis County prior to 1876 are only available via the St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds and Vital Records Registrar.
 * St. Louis County Office of Vital Records, Berkeley, has all Missouri births since 1920, St. Louis County only births 1883-1910; all MO deaths since 1980, and St. Louis County only deaths 1883-1910.
 * St. Louis Genealogical Society, about them, events, resources, research, education, first families, and surname search.
 * St. Louis Mercantile Library, early newspapers, railroads, inland waterways, county records, biographies, and genealogies. A premier library for Missouri research.
 * St. Louis Missouri Family History Center, Frontenac, has premium online services for free, offers research suggestions, and can order microfilms from the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
 * St. Louis Public Library has an Obituary Index for the years 1880–1927; 1942–1945; 1992–2006, family histories, passenger lists, Heritage Quest, and Gateway Family Historian publication.
 * Saul Brodsky Jewish Community Library, St. Louis, comprehensive source for Judaica. 23,000 books.
 * U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, St. Louis, recent federal civil, criminal, and bankruptcy court records.
 * Repositories in surrounding counties: in Missouri:  Franklin, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. Louis City, in Illinois:  Madison, Monroe, and St. Clair.
 * Community of Christ Library and Archives, Independence, books, periodicals, letters, and diaries of the of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints/Community of Christ.
 * Kansas City Public Library Missouri Valley Special Collections, The Missouri Valley Room has a great genealogy collection for Missouri and Kansas with biographies, periodicals, genealogies, diaries, photos, scrapbooks, and newspapers of the Kansas City area.
 * Mid-Continent Public Library Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence, a great American genealogy collection: censuses, MO federal land sales, penitentiary, St. Louis fur trade, Civil War, passenger lists, plantations, American Indians, city directories, newspapers, Draper Manuscripts, and KY taxes.
 * Missouri Bureau of Vital Records, Jefferson City, central registry of Missouri births and deaths since 1910; marriages and divorces since 1948.
 * Missouri United Methodist Archives, Fayette, historical materials on Methodism in Missouri emphasizing ministers.
 * Ozarks Genealogical Society Library, Springfield, has Missouri and other states, a large periodical collection, and special southern Missouri family records.
 * Springfield-Greene County Library Midtown, for southern Missouri: censuses, church histories, directories, Civil War, online deaths 1910-1958, births, marriages, land, probate, cemeteries.
 * State Historical Society of Missouri, Columbia, census, maps, newspapers, online tools, oral history, photos, historical manuscripts, and reference materials.
 * Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Library, Republic, find ancestors who served in the U.S. Civil War.
 * Repositories in surrounding states: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.
 * Harrison County Historical Museum, Marshall TX, a key repository for Missouri  and Texas settlers. A major center for MO Confederates. Family folders, books, letters, diaries, journals, surname lists.
 * Newberry Library, Chicago, genealogies, local histories, censuses, military, land, indexes, vital records, court, and tax records mostly from the Mississippi Valley, eastern seaboard, Canada, and Britain.