Vital Statistics

Connie Shiverdecker, Deputy Registrar, has been employed with the Health Department since 2007. She issues birth and death certificates, collects vital statistics, and prepares minutes for the Fatality Review Board. She also assists with other secretarial duties within the environmental division.
 

New: As of January 1, 2011 the Darke County Health Department can now issue birth certificates for anyone born in the State of Ohio.

Please see State of Ohio press release link below:

State of Ohio Press Release on Statewide Issuance

The Darke County Health Department can only issue death certificates for deaths that occurred in Darke County.  To obtain a copy of a death certificate of a death that occurred in another county, contact that county.

For genealogy purposes the Darke County Health Department has birth and death certificates for individuals that were either born or died in Darke County. Records start December 20, 1908 to the present.

Anyone wishing to deliver their baby at home can pickup the birth forms that need to be filled out.

We have Certificates of Service – people who died in another state but are buried in Darke County.

Vital Statistics information Darke County:

E-mail the Vital Statistics Division

For additional information regarding Vital Statistics within Ohio:

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  Page last updated: 9/13/2011