Louisiana State Vital Records Office

Louisiana Vital Records Registry PO Box 60630 New Orleans, LA 70160 (504) 219-4500

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Make check or money order payable to Vital Records. A $0.50 state charge must be added to each mail or Vitalchek order. Include phone number(s) and SASE in request. All mail orders MUST be accompanied by a photocopy of your driver'slicense or photo ID, regardless of relationship of requestor and/or registrant/decedent. Failure to include same may result in your request being denied.
If the requestor is NOT the registrant, and is NOT immediate family (IN THE SAME HOUSEHOLD), the requestor must also supply a SIGNED statement ofauthorization and a photocopy of BOTH the registrant's and the requestor's ID. This isespecially applicable to cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, brothers, sisters.Full eligibility requirements are also posted on the site and should be read BEFORE placing an order.
Fraudulent applications WILL be prosecuted in accordance with Louisianalaw. In the event that fraudulent documents are submitted in a request, ALL parties involved can be prosecuted.

Louisiana State Archives

3851 Essen Lane
PO Box 94125
Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9125
(225) 922-2012
If no record is on file, a search fee equivalent to the cost of one copy of the record will be charged. Please note: You can obtain ONLY birth records over 100 years old and Death records over 50 years at the Louisiana State Archives. All other current vital records are obtained through the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
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  Record		Cost	Dates	Ordering
  Birth		$9.00 (short) $15.00 (long)	since July 1914	Order Online	Mail Order
  	from State Registrar/Vital Records and Statistics Records for City of New Orleans are available since 1892.
  Birth		$5.00	1790-1897	Order Online
  	City of New Orleans only from the Louisiana State Archives
  Death		$7.00	since July 1914	Order Online	Mail Order
  	from State Registrar/Vital Records and Statistics Records for City of New Orleans are available since 1892. Click here to search the Social Security Death Index
  Death		$5.00	1918-1948	Order Online
  	State-wide records from the Louisiana State Archives Click here to search the Social Security Death Index
  Death		$5.00	1804-1946	Order Online	Mail Order
  	Orleans Parish records from the Louisiana State Archives Click here to search the Social Security Death Index
  Amendmant to Birth & Death Certificates		Click here for information
  	Click here to search the Social Security Death Index
  Marriage		$5.00	1870-1946	Order Online	Mail Order
  	Orleans Parish records only from Vital Records Registry or the Louisiana State Archives. For other parishes, certified copies are available from the Clerk of the Court in the parish where the license was issued.
  Orleans Marriage Certificate		$5.00		Order Online
  	from Vital Records Registry
  Divorce		Divorce records are available from Clerk of Court in parish where divorce was granted. Fees vary. Call Civil District Court, (504) 592-9100.
  Naturalization		Search Louisiana Naturalization Records Online
  Census			1790 through 1930	Search U.S. Federal Census Records Online

  

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Index to Louisiana Parish Vital Records Offices

Marriage and divorce records are available from the Clerk of the Court in the parish where the license was issued or the divorce was granted. Birth and death certificates are no longer available in the individual Parishes.

Follow this link to Rootsweb to determine what parish a city or town is in.

Acadia . Allen . Ascension . Assumption . Avoyelles . Beauregard . Bienville . Bossier . Caddo . Calcasieu . Caldwell . Cameron . Catahoula . Claiborne . Concordia . DeSoto . East Baton Rouge . East Carroll . East Feliciana . Evangeline . Franklin . Grant . Iberia . Iberville . Jackson . Jefferson . Jefferson Davis . Lafayette . Lafourche . LaSalle . Lincoln . Livingston . Madison . Morehouse . Natchitoches . Orleans . Ouachita . Plaquemines . Pointe Coupee . Rapides . Red River . Richland . Sabine . St. Bernard . St. Charles . St. Helena . St. James . St. John the Baptist . St. Landry . St. Martin . St. Mary . St. Tammany . Tangipahoa . Tensas . Terrebonne . Union . Vermilion . Vernon . Washington . Webster . West Baton Rouge . West Carroll . West Feliciana . Winn .

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