How to Find Mississippi Vital Records

Mississippi vital records include birth, death, marriage and divorce records. Find out how you can best get the MS vital records you want and approximately how much these records will cost you.

Mississippi, known as the 'Magnolia State', has an estimated population of  2,921,088 (year 2005 estimates). Now that produces a lot of vital records doesn't it? After all, vital records really pertain to four main life events: birth, death marriage, and divorce.

But before you get intimidated by the sheer volume of vital records you need to dig through before you find the record you are looking for, do note that your search can be made a whole lot easier if you have some basic valuable information already in hand.

MS Vital Records - What You Should Provide

Before you go on your search for vital records in Mississippi, check out if you have the answers to the following questions.

• Do you know the complete name of the person whose vital record you are looking for?

• Do you know the specific county, city or town where the birth, death, marriage or divorce took place?

• What is the exact (or approximate) date of the birth, death , marriage or divorce record you are looking for?

• Do you have your  full name, signature and contact details ready?

• What is your reason for requesting copies of the records?

• What is your relationship to the individuals whose records you are looking for? (This will be asked if you are someone not directly mentioned in the vital records you are looking for.)

How Much Will Mississippi Vital Records Cost You?

Following is a quick rundown of approximately how much is required to get copies of pertinent vital records in Mississippi from the resource mentioned below.

Copy of Birth Record - $12.00 (long form); $7.00 (short form); additional copies ordered at $3.00 each.

Copy of Death Record - $10.00; additional copies ordered at $2.00 each.

Mississippi birth and death records are on file from the date 1912 onwards.

Copy of State Marriage Record - $10.00

Statistical MS marriage records are available from January 1926 to July 1, 1938, and since January 1942.

Copy of County Marriage Record - $3.00. Please contact the Circuit Court Clerk where the marriage license was issued.
 

Copy of State Divorce Record -  rate varies.

Copy of County Divorce Record - rate varies.

Records available are since January 1926.

* Fees are quoted as of this writing. To check for any changes, pls. call the number cited below.

Useful Mississippi Vital Records Resource

Mississippi Department of Health
Vital Records and Statistics

2423 North State Street
Jackson, MS 39216

Tel: (601) 576-7540

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