Elkhart County Health Department Vital Records

Tuesday through friday 8am 3 55 pm.

Elkhart county health department vital records. Elkhart county health department vital records 608 oakland avenue elkhart in 46516 574 523 2107. Due to staff in service our office will open at 9 00am on the second thursday of february may august and november and on the first thursday in december. Elkhart county vital records elkhart county health department elkhart county vital records issues certified copies of elkhart county birth certificates and elkhart county death certificates for events which occurred within elkhart county. The elkhart county health department began in 1949.

Death records are kept by vital records offices or elkhart county clerk s offices which may be run by the state or at the local level. This office holds records from 1882 to the present for births and deaths that have occurred in elkhart county only. The first staff included a part time health commissioner public health nurses who visited in schools and homes sanitarians who inspected restaurants and dairy farms plus vital record clerks who kept birth and death records. As a department of public health dph the department works to prevent the spread of diseases promote healthy behaviors and ensure a clean water supply.

Elkhart county genealogical society po box 1031 elkhart in 46515 1031. These can include elkhart county death certificates local and indiana state death registries and the national death index. Please contact the county vital records office in the state where you were born. Indiana state department of health vital records has records for persons born in the state of indiana from october 1 1907 to the present.

For your convenience you can process online requests through an independent company that elkhart county health department has partnered with to provide you this service. Closed for lunch from 1 2 pm. Elkhart county death records are documents relating to an individual s death in elkhart county indiana. You may order copies of elkhart county vital records through vitalchek on an expedited basis.

Your request should include a sase your relationship to the deceased and a photocopy of your driver s license or other photo id. How to search online for death records. Learn about death records including. The mission of the elkhart county vital records office is to provide friendly courteous and accurate service in issuing birth and death records.