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Obtaining Death Records In South Carolina

You can write to the South Carolina Office of Vital Records below.

Office of Vital Records
2600 Bull Street
Columbia, SC 29201

Ph: (803) 898-3630
Fax: (803) 898-3761

The center has records since January 1915.

It costs $12 for obtaining an South Carolina death certificate, plus an additional $3 for any other copies made at the same time.

A Personal check or money order will need to be made payable to SCDHEC. Phone (803) 898-3630 to verify the current fees. More information is also available from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control website.

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South Carolina death records are available through many different types of sources. The mandating registration law for the death records in South Carolina came up in the year 1914. The law was enforced during the same time when the law for birth records was enforced.

However, there were many death instances recorded even before the year 1914. This was mainly done in the countryside of South Carolina. However, this information was not very accurate and also not consistent enough to be developed into any kind of a data.

It was the year 1915 when the first death record was registered officially in the state of South Carolina and since then the state has been able to successfully maintain a data of most of the deaths which have happened in South Carolina.

The death certificates would contain information like the name of the person who died, the place where the person died. Infact, the data has been so well researched that in some cases you would even find the name of the physician who was present during the death of the individual.

South Carolina Death papers can be easily obtained from many different sources.

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