When the decree is final, the court clerk signs the certificate and sends it to the Health Department for filing. By law, these reports are for statistical purposes only, are not public records, and are destroyed after five years. In addition to receiving copies of vital records from Vermont town clerks, the Health Department also receives copies of certificates of all Vermont resident births and deaths that occur in other states and in Canada. This allows the Department to do statistical analyses of vital events involving Vermont residents even if the birth or death occurred outside of the state. Health Department staff code and enter all vital records received into a computerized database, and send a data file containing some of the information from the records to the National Center for Health Statistics to become part of a national database.
Most town clerks have vital records for the events that took place in their township.
To find current town clerk information click on this link . Vermont Vital Records Vermont Vital Records are houses in the Middlesex Complex, located behind the State Police on US Route 2 in Middlesex. Not only can you find Vermont birth, death, marriage, and divorce records here that are more than ten years old, you can also access many land, burial and cemetery records and probate indexes through the 1970's, miscellaneous genealogical records like town, church, naturalization and census records as well as agency records like Act 250 plans and permits, earnings records, and court dockets. You can order copies by phone or fax using your credit card, but there may be shipping charges involved.