Talk:Vital record

Context-sensitive
In Records Management and Archival science the term Vital Record has a totally different meaning, related to the use of "vital" to signify "essential" (rather than "related to life" as in the present article). Ideally there would be a disambiguation article and a new article. But I don't know how to create a disambiguation page. If anyone wants to create it, please do and I'll gladly volunteer to start the new article. But if nobody does, I'll (reluctantly) add the other meaning as an alternative meaning to the present article. MarcMFresko (talk) 09:36, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Massachusetts Vital records
Examples online: http://ma-vitalrecords.org/VRSI_Ot.shtml

https://books.google.com/books?id=tFUmAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA669&dq=James+Warren+of+Plymouth+Mass+died+1821&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8t4eb6b7hAhWRdd8KHcKiA2QQ6AEIUDAI#v=onepage&q=James%20Warren%20of%20Plymouth%20Mass%20died%201821&f=false First Church of Plymouth “Plymouth Church Records, 1620-1859, Part 2” pub 1923 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.5.89.128 (talk) 21:19, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

US State Laws vary significantly in regards to what vital records are public.
Wisconsin law only applies to events that occurred in the state of Wisconsin. In the United States, some vital records for some states are public. Many states restrict access for a number of years, restrict access to certain records, or restrict access to certain information in the records. For example...

In Iowa, no information about deaths is available to the public unless it is 50 years after the person’s death. [Https://iowaculture.gov/history/research/collections/vital-records https://iowaculture.gov/history/research/collections/vital-records]

In North Dakota, death records available to the public do not include the cause of death. [Https://www.hhs.nd.gov/vital/death https://www.hhs.nd.gov/vital/death] and only immediate relatives can access birth records [Https://www.hhs.nd.gov/vital/birth https://www.hhs.nd.gov/vital/birth]

Also, in New England states vital records are kept by the towns and the state, not the counties. Dml-1962 (talk) 21:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)