Please click on the appropriate section to find out more specific information about how to acquire copies of Tennessee birth certificates, Tennessee death records, Tennessee marriage licenses, and Tennessee 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.
Within Tennessee, many county health departments issue birth certificates. All county health departments issue death certificates for deaths which occurred in that county within the past three years. Some county health departments keep death records for longer periods of time.
Marriage certificates are available from the county clerk who issued the marriage license. Divorce records may be obtained from the clerk of the court which granted the divorce.
