Dual Citizenship
The process for obtaining dual citizenship through ancestry requires locating specific supporting documents and having them certified. For a comprehensive explanation regarding dual citizenship, please visit the United States Immigration website How to get dual citizenship or nationality | USAGov, https://www.usa.gov/become-us-citizen. Below find guidelines for obtaining certified copies of Delaware vital records needed to support […]
Index to 1500-008-003, Death Records
About this guide: This guide – part list, part index cards – indexes the Department of Health and Social Services, Vital Statistics, Death Records collection. The records were maintained by the Bureau of Vital Statistics and its predecessors from 1700 to 1999, and the indices were created by DPA. Listed below is this index, separated […]
Service Notice – Marriage Certificates
The Delaware Public Archives will service Delaware marriage certificates up to 1970. For marriage certificates from present-day to 1971, please contact the Office of Vital Statistics.
Service Notice: Vital Statistics Marriage Certificates
Following the passage of House Bill 114, the Delaware Public Archives will service Delaware marriage certificates up to 1968.
Guide To Vital Statistics Records
Delaware Public Archives
YES, I’m Finally A Member!
Have you been trying to join a lineage based society and hit a brick wall? Maybe we can help. We did the other day when a patron came in to see if she could find documentation on an ancestor so that she could join the Society of Colonial Inn Keepers. She was surprised at all the […]
Olympics or Bust!
I was watching the Olympics this week and was listening to the commentators talking about the athletes that live in the United States but play for other countries. I couldn’t help but think about a family we helped in 2007. We had a mother call who wanted to get dual citizenship for her son. He […]
