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The Division for Vital Records and Health Statistics registers, preserves, and issues certified copies of vital records. This includes birth, death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce certificates for all events that occur in Michigan, with records dating back to 1867.
Search Historical Death records now. Overview. The Division of Vital Records and Health Statistics (DVRHS) provides Internet access to information from archived death records through the Genealogical Death Indexing System (GENDIS).
Genealogical Death Indexing System. Please enter the decedent information that you wish to use in the search. The Genealogical Death Indexing System will produce a list of possible matches to the information that you enter.
Births account for the largest number of records, followed by death records and then marriage and divorce records. Information about Michigan vital events were captured in ledger form through 1905 for births, 1897 for deaths, 1925 for marriages and 1923 for divorces.
To obtain additional Michigan vital records online: Michiganology has Michigan death certificates, 1897 to 1946; indexing to 1952. Family Search includes a growing number of Michigan vital records as part of its ongoing digital records project.
Vital statistics data developed from these records can be accessed through the links below for the full range of vital events including births, deaths, marriages and divorces. Basic counts for the number of events, rates and detailed cross tabulations are provided.
Key facts on any Michigan death record can be verified. Anyone is eligible to request a verification of a Michigan death record as long as the information to be verified can be supplied by the applicant.
Some courts, only display case numbers and information for criminal convictions if the sentencing occurred within seven years of the date of search in MiCOURT. These courts are identified with a check mark under the "7-Year Criminal Sentence Filter" column of the MiCOURT case search.
Collections at the Archives of Michigan include probate files, naturalization records, tax rolls, cemetery transcripts, local histories, circuit court case files, prison registries and other helpful records.
Retention & Disposal Schedules identify all of the records that are maintained by government agencies, regardless of format. Schedules define how long records need to be retained to satisfy administrative, fiscal, legal and historical requirements, and they specify if/when records can be destroyed.