Enter a first and/or last name to search New Hampshire birth records. This website was created to provide genealogists with access to the New Hampshire birth records from a single place. Additional information on how to obtain New Hampshire birth certificates is available below.
Birth records contain information about a person's birth, including the date of birth, place of birth, sometimes the names of the mother and father, and even the physician who attended the birth. Birth certificates issued by state and local governments will often include the place of residence, and the mother's maiden name.
This webpage gives you access to all of the online databases containing New Hampshire birth records, New Hampshire birth ceritificates, New Hampshire birth notices, New Hampshire birth indexes, and other related New Hampshire genealogy records.
Birth records have long been used to help with genealogy research. They are considered to be "primary source" records, because the information is recorded by an eye witness, at the time the birth takes place. The Internet has allowed people to store birth records into various online archives. This has brought access to online birth records much more easier for genealogy researchers.
Newspapers frequently publish notices of births, and in addition to birth certificates, are a popular source of research by genealogists. Newspapers typically do not announce the names of the newborn, but list the sex of the child, the names of the parents, the place and date of birth.
On this page you will find the most comprehensive databases containing birth records of New Hampshire. We also suggest searching for "New Hampshire birth records" using Google.com, which will yield all such databases.
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How to Obtain New Hampshire Birth Certificates
The town or city clerk's office is the place where vital events are officially recorded in New Hampshire. Today each town or city sends copies of its vital events to the Bureau of Vital Records. Statewide compilation, however, did not begin until a law was passed in 1866, and total compliance was not accomplished until the 1880s. The Bureau of Vital Records was not established until 1905, but holds records from 1640 to the present.
For births, marriages, and deaths to present, write:
New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services
Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics
6 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301-6527
For prior records, write to the clerk of the county in question.
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