Please click on the appropriate section to find out more specific information about how to acquire copies of South Dakota birth certificates, South Dakota death records, South Dakota marriage licenses, and South Dakota 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.
Birth, death and marriage records which are not available from the State Office should be available from the Register of Deeds in the county where the event occurred. Divorce records may be obtained from the State Office or from the Clerk of Courts in the county where the divorce occured.
