Certified birth certificate information is available to anyone who has misplaced their birth certificate or needs to check the birth records of an individual. This information is readily available through the vital statistics offices of the state in which the birth occurred. However, be ready with all the information the state will require in order to serve your request.

It may interest you to know that some states can issue both certified and uncertified birth certificates. Under some circumstances, people do ask for uncertified birth certificates. However, in most cases, ordering a copy of birth certificate will request a birth certificate that is certified.

How to Obtain a Certified Birth Certificate

If you need a certified copy of your birth certificate, you can either deal with the state directly or use one of the online services that have popped up in recent years. The benefit of these online services is that they do all the legwork for you. As anyone who's been through the process of obtaining a replacement birth certificate already knows, this legwork can be a real pain.

For a small and reasonable fee, these online companies will take your information that you will submit through their secure, hacker-proof website. They then will bring your information to the state and put in the request for you, as well as deal with any unforeseen situations that may arise - and believe me, with state bureaucracies, they do. They then will ship your birth certificate to you within a matter of days, the amount of time depending on the situation in each state's vital records office.