Please click on the appropriate section to find out more specific information about how to acquire copies of North Carolina birth certificates, North Carolina death records, North Carolina marriage licenses, and North Carolina divorce decrees. Please note that rules and regulations for obtaining vital records may differ by state and by type of record requested.
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.
Births and deaths have been registered in North Carolina state government offices since 1913. Prior to 1913, the state of North Carolina did not use birth records or certificates of any kind. No death records are available at the state government offices prior to 1909.
