US Vital Records

Vermont Vital Records
Vital record registration in Vermont is recorded at the town level. The vital records are incomplete before mandatory registration began in 1857. However, it is not uncommon to find an entire family recorded as a family group before 1820. In some cases, although the event was recorded in a particular town, it may have actually occurred in another town or state where the family previously resided, and not all events for a family were recorded. Marriages and deaths in the pre 1857 period were less likely to be recorded.

For births, marriages, and deaths within the last ten years, write:

Vermont Department of Health
Vital Records Unit
108 Cherry Street
P.O. Box 70
Burlington, VT 05402-0070

For earlier records, write:
Vermont General Services Center
Public Records Division
Route 2, Drawer 33
Middlesex, VT 05633-7601
Telephone:
  802-828-3288
  802-828-2794 (Public Records)
  802-828-3286 (Reference/Research Center)
Fax: 802-828-3710

Vermont Department of Health - Vital Records

Vermont Research Sources

Bassett, T. D. Seymour, ed. Vermont: A Bibliography of Its History. 1981. Reprint. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1983.

Eichholz, Alice. Collecting Vermont Ancestors. Montpelier: New Trails, 1986.

Swift, Esther Munroe. Vermont Place-Names: Footprints of History. Brattleboro,Vt.: Stephen Greene Press, 1977.

Hemenway, Abby Maria. Vermont Historical Gazetteer. 5 vols. Burlington, Vt., and others, 1867–91. (An index covering all towns except those in Windsor County was published in 1923 by Tuttle Company, in Rutland, Vermont, and indicates town as well as volume and page number for the person named.)

Vermont State Archives
Location at Redstone:
26 Terrace Street
Montpelier, VT
Mail:
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609-1101
Tel: 802-828-2308
http://vermont-archives.org/

Vermont Department of Libraries
Reference and Law Services
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05609
Tel: 802-828-3261
Fax: 802-828-2199
http://dol.state.vt.us/

Vermont Historical Society
http://www.vermonthistory.org/

Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society Library
St. John's Club
9 Central Avenue
Burlington, VT
Mail:
P.O. Box 65128
Burlington, VT 05406-5128
http://www.vt-fcgs.org/

Vermont Historical Society
Pavilion Office Building
109 State Street
Montpelier, VT 05602
Tel: 802-828-2291
http://www.vermonthistory.org/

Bennington Museum/Genealogical Library
West Main Street
Bennington, VT 05201
Tel: 802-447-1571
Fax: 802-447-8305
http://www.vmga.org/bennington/benmuse.html

Vermont in the Civil War
http://vermontcivilwar.org/index.php

Vermont Department of Health - Vital Records
http://www.healthyvermonters.info/hs/vital/vitalhome.shtml