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| Maine Vital Records |
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| Please click on the appropriate section to find out more specific information about how to acquire copies of Maine birth certificates, Maine death records, Maine marriage licenses, and Maine divorce decrees. Please note that rules and regulations for obtaining vital records may differ by state and by type of record requested. |
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For example, getting California birth certificates may have different rules than acquiring New York birth certificates and Texas death records may be different than Texas divorce decrees. Please click on the appropriate state and records area for the guidelines, contact information, and procedures, and links, for obtaining the vital record you are searching for. |
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| Vital records are also kept by town clerks. Although some towns have existed since the 1650s, most vital records date from about 1700. The vital statistics are often arranged by family. |
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| Before 1892, records of births, marriages, and deaths were kept by the towns within Maine. Thus the information on these municipal records is in most cases incomplete than found on more modern records. Marriages and deaths, for example, rarely listed parents' names or the parties' places of birth. |
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