Request For Birth and Death Certificates

COSTS:
Birth Certificate: $23.00 Per Copy
Death Certificate: $21.00 ($4.00 For Each Additional Copy)

PRINTABLE APPLICATION: Click For On-Line Printable Application
**NOTE: Must send copy of VALID Driver's License

CONFIDENTIALITY:
Birth records are closed to the public until the 75th anniversary of the date the record is filed.

Death records are closed to the public until the 25th anniversary of the date the record is filed.

Only "qualified applicants" may receive copies of closed records.

QUALIFIED APPLICANT:
Only a qualified applicant may obtain a copy of a birth or death certificate. The following persons are qualified applicants: the person on the record, parent, step-parent, child, brother, sister, spouse, grandparent, legal guardian or managing conservator, legal representative, person serving under contract for the registrant.

All applicants must show proof of identification; for example, driver's license or identification card.

CERTIFICATE BY MAIL:
Send a letter including all of the information below with a copy of your driver's license or other identification along with a check or money order made payable to Grayson County Clerk. Please, list a return address or include a self-addressed envelope with your request.

RECORDS AVAILABLE:
Birth Certificates:
Available from the remote access system from any county in Texas from 1926 to present IF the person was issued a birth certificate at birth. If a delayed birth certificate was issued later in life those certificates are not available through the remote access and you would need to contact the county where the birth occurred. Certificates filed in Grayson County begin in 1909; Grayson County Delayed Birth records are available from the 1800's.

Death Certificates:
Deaths in Grayson County are recorded from 1909 to present. Death records are NOT available through the remote access system. The certificate will be on file in the county where the person died.