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Statewide recording of vital records is as follows.
The Texas Vital Statistics division of the Department of State Health Services has:
  • Birth records since 1903
  • Marriage records since January 1966
  • Death records since 1903
  • Divorce records since January 1968, kept under the jurisdiction of the respective clerk of the district court

See more detailed information, including what is available at the county or city levels:  Ancestry.com Wiki - Texas Vital Records
Based on Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources

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  • WorldVitalRecords.com - Texas Divorces 1968 - 2001 $

    Historical Context: Reports of divorces and annulments only were reported to the Bureau of Vital Statistics starting in 1968. Before that time, check the county clerk for earlier records. (Taken from the Handybook for Genealogists, 11th Edition.) Questions Asked: Husband, Husband's Age, Wife, Wife's Age, Number of children Under 18, Marriage Date, Divorce Date, Divorce County, Divorce State. Why This Database is Valuable: This Divorce Index is a compilation of the Reports of Divorce Decrees or Annulment to Marriage by the district clerk's office in the county where the court decree was filed. Index information includes husband and wife names, ages, marriage and divorce dates, and the county where the divorce occurred. Ongoing corrections are made to the original record, therefore these indexes may not reflect the most recent information.

  • WorldVitalRecords.com - Texas Marriages 1968 - 2003 $

    Historical Context: Reports of marriages were reported to the Bureau of Vital Statistics starting in 1966. Before that time, check the county clerk for earlier records. (Taken from the Handybook for Genealogists, 11th Edition.) Questions Asked: Bride Name, Bride Age, Groom Name, Groom Age, Marriage Date, Marriage Place. Why This Database is Valuable: This Marriage License Application Index is a compilation of the marriage license applications that were sent from the county in which the marriage license is filed. Index information includes bride and groom names, ages, and the county where the application was filed. This Index cannot be considered comprehensive. To receive information on marriages prior to 1966, or if you cannot locate a marriage in this index, you must contact the County in which the marriage occurred. Contains more than six million names. Next Steps: This database can help prove when and where people were married, establishing relationships between couples, and extrapolated family connections.

  • WorldVitalRecords.com - Texas Marriages 2004 $

    This Marriage License Application Index is a compilation of the marriage license applications that were sent from the county in which the marriage license is filed. Index information includes bride and groom names, ages, and the county where the application was filed. This Index cannot be considered comprehensive. To receive information on marriages prior to 1966, or if you cannot locate a marriage in this index, you must contact the County in which the marriage occurred.

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