State of Louisiana Death Records

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If you would like to do a search in person, the contact details are below.

Obtaining Death Records In Louisiana

You can write to the Louisiana office of public health below.

Office of Public Health
Vital Records Registry
PO Box 60630
New Orleans, LA 70160

Ph: (504) 219-4500

The center has records 50 years past the date of death.

It costs $7.50 for obtaining a Louisiana death certificate.

Louisiana Death records are confidential for 50 years, for current records you should submit a request form, full details are available from the Louisiana Office of Public Health & Vital Records and Statistics website.

Older records are available through the

Louisiana State Archives
P.O. Box 94125
Baton Rouge, LA 70804

Louisiana Death Records LA:

The state of Louisiana is bordered by Texas to its west, Arkansas to its north, the state of Mississippi to its east and down below we have the Gulf of Mexico. The state has an overall subtropical humid climate. It is also termed as the only state which matches closest to all three terms. The climate of this state is greatly influenced by the Gulf of Mexico which is bordering it from the southern part.

Since most of the state of Louisiana is under the Roman Catholic Church, the registers used to be the only source of records for the people. But now there are two ways by which you can access the Louisiana death certificates. The first is by the Louisiana Department of Health. From the year 1990 this department has taken the rights to own and refresh the death records which are handled by the parishes in the state.

The other source of death records is online. It is known as the Louisiana death records database. They hold the death records from the past 50 years and in cases of some specific parishes like the Orleans or the Jefferson parish, they have death records that date back to 1850. The charge for ordering a certified copy of a death record is $5.00 USD.

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