Tips When Requesting Vital Statistics in Idaho

The Office of Vital Statistics in Idaho charges a fixed rate of $13 per birth, marriage, divorce, or death record. The office has birth and death records from mid-1911, while its marriage and divorce records date from mid-1947. The office is located at the first floor of 450 West State Street in Boise.

Tips on Requesting Birth/Death Vital Statistics in Idaho

When accessing ID vital statistics, particularly birth and death records, make sure you include the following to expedite your request:

1. Complete name of person on record
2. Complete date of birth/death
3. Gender
4. Name of father, mother (with maiden name)
5. Location (down to hospital name, if possible)
6. Reason for request and relation to person on record
7. Your contact details (include complete daytime contact number)

Tips on Requesting Marriage/Divorce Vital Statistics in Idaho

Data for requests of marriage and divorce records should include:

1. Couple's complete names
2. Complete date of marriage or divorce (include final decree type for the latter)
3. Location of marriage or divorce
4. Reason for request and relation to person/s on record
5. Your contact details (include complete daytime contact number)

General Tips on Looking for ID Vital Statistics

Be ready to submit a photocopy of a federal or state-issued photo identification card. If you do not have one, you should be able to produce photocopies of TWO photo ID cards that bear your signature.

When researching vital statistics in Idaho, bear in mind that before state record-keeping policies, individual counties had their own methods of keeping public documents. Some counties would provide forms that may have varied in the details required.

Moreover, just as forms were not standard, filing systems varied across counties. Be prepared to look for, say, marriage records among the general records of a courthouse or even in the town minute book.

Early records may not have even made it to the county, being confined to church birth, death, and marriage registers.

Useful Idaho Vital Records Resource

Idaho Vital Statistics Office

1st floor, 450 West State Street

Boise, Idaho

Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare
Official website of the State of Idaho

For records from other years you may have to check county records where the event took place.

 

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