Schleicher County Texas
Birth Certificate

Texas Birth Certificate

When you need to start a Texas vital records search and obtainment request for a certified copy of family members, or your own Texas birth certificate, because you were born in Schleicher County, TX you have three different Texas birth certificate version options to choose from when you contact the Vital Statistics Division of the Texas Department of State Health Services.

Please note that official raised seal certified copies of Texas birth certificates can only be researched, obtained, and ordered for Texas births that occurred after 1903.

Texas birth certificate short form (standard size/abstract): This is the most commonly issued type of Texas birth certificate because it complies with the requirements for most everyday purposes. It is sufficient for registering a child for daycare, K-12 school, or yourself for college and university enrollment, researching your family’s past genealogy records, joining youth sports league programs, insurance claims, mortgage applications, new employment, and for obtaining a driver license, state photo identification card, social security number, or marriage license in most U.S states.

You will see below the one Texas birth certificate long form image covered in void text and that is a Texas Vital Records security feature that is triggered whenever anyone tries to scan the birth certificate. The other image without the void text on it is when you take a picture of the long form Texas birth certificate with a cellphone or camera.

Texas birth certificate short form scan
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Texas birth certificate short form photo
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Texas birth certificate long form (full size): This type of Texas birth certificate contains sensitive personal information, so it’s not recommended for everyday usage because it will display any and all birth corrections that have been made to your official Texas birth records. This type of Texas birth certificate is normally required and universally accepted by all state and federal government agencies for immigration, proof of newborn’s identity, Native American heritage, passport applications and renewals, traveling abroad, paternity issues, dual citizenship applications, and Indian registry purposes.

This is the type of Texas birth certificate we always recommend that you get if you’re only ordering one birth certificate. To cover all your legal and identity bases it’s best practice to always have at least one long form birth certificate copy and one short form birth certificate copy version for you and/or your spouse, children, siblings, parents, etc.

You will see below the one Texas birth certificate short form image covered in void text and that is a Texas Vital Records security feature that is triggered whenever anyone tries to scan the birth certificate. The other image without the void text on it is when you take a picture of the short form Texas birth certificate with a cellphone or camera.

Texas birth certificate long form scan
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Texas birth certificate long form photo
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Texas birth certificate heirloom This type of Texas birth certificate can only be used as a gift or for decorative reasons. It has an engraved intaglio border, extra-thick paper card stock, and various background security features. You can choose from two different styles, the bassinet or flag designs, and they come in 11×14 paper sizes.

Texas birth certificate heirloom bassinet
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Texas birth certificate heirloom flag
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Please note that Texas state law prevents heirloom Texas birth certificates to be issued to people whose Texas births were established by court order or delayed record procedures.

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Death Certificate

Texas Death Certificate

When you need to do a search and request for a certified copy of a Texas death certificate for a person that died in Schleicher County, TX, we can help you rush file and obtain your Texas death records application request from Texas Vital Statistics.

Certified copies of Texas death certificates for deaths that occurred during the last twenty five years can only be ordered by the decedent’s father, mother, child, spouse, and sibling, a legal representative of the families or the final estate of the deceased person. A person or company can also obtain and submit a court order that legally commands the State of Texas to release the Texas death certificate over to them.

If you ordered a Texas death certificate and you’re not an immediate family member, you must provide legal documentation (such as an insurance policy that lists you as the beneficiary) that documents a direct legal interest in the Texas death certificate.

Access to Texas death certificate certified copies are restricted to the past 25 years from the date of death, meaning that now in 2022 you can only go back to 1997.

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Birth Verification Letter

Texas Birth Verification Letter

If you, a family member, or a company needs to verify and obtain legal documentation of a person’s Texas birth record you can order and receive a Texas birth verification letter that legally states whether an official record of Texas birth is on file with the State of Texas Vital Records office for a specific individual or not.

If a Texas birth record is requested and found, the official Texas birth verification letter issued by the State of Texas will include the birth person’s full legal name, the date of the event (official date of birth), and the Texas county where the Texas birth was legally recorded to have happened at.

If no Texas birth record is found by the State of Texas Vital Records databases, you’ll be issued a no birth record found letter from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas birth verification letters are only available to research and order for Texas births that occurred after 1903.

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Death Verification Letter

Texas Death Verification Letter

If you, a family member, or a company needs to verify and obtain legal documentation of a person’s Texas death record you can order and receive a Texas death verification letter that legally states whether an official record of Texas death is on file with the State of Texas Vital Records office for a specific individual or not.

If a Texas death record is requested and found, the official Texas death verification letter issued by the State of Texas will include the death person’s full legal name, the date of the event (official date of death), and the Texas county where the Texas death was legally recorded to have happened at.

If no Texas death record is found by the State of Texas Vital Records databases, you’ll be issued a no Texas death record found letter from the Texas Department of State Health Services. Texas death verification letters are only available to research and order for Texas deaths that occurred after 1903.

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Marriage Verification Letter

Texas Marriage Verification Letter

If you, a family member, or a company needs to verify and obtain legal documentation of a person’s Texas marriage record you can order and receive a Texas marriage verification letter that legally states whether a record of Texas marriage is on file with the State of Texas Vital Records office for an individual or not.

Texas marriage verification letters can be issued by Texas Vital Statistics for all legal Texas marriages events that happened from 1966 to the present day. If a Texas marriage occurred before 1966 you will not be able to get a Texas verification of marriage letter issued to you by the State of Texas Vital Records office.

If no record of a Texas marriage is found by the State of Texas databases, the Texas marriage verification letter issued can then be considered an Affidavit of Single Status, Single Proof Letter, Certificate of No Public Record, Certificate of No Record of a Marriage, Certificate of No Impediment for Marriage, Affidavit of Marriageability, Free To Marry Statement Letter, or a Certificate of Legal Capacity To Contract Marriage letter, which some foreign countries will accept as your official legal proof of your current single status.

This single status letter affidavit is almost always needed when you’re getting married outside of the United States and the country of origin of where you’re getting married requests from you a notarized and apostilled (authenticated, attested, and legalized are other terms used) verification letter.

Please note that official certified copies of your Texas marriage license or Texas marriage certificate are only available from the Schleicher County clerk’s office if that is the Texas county where you were officially documented to be married in.

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Divorce Verification Letter

Texas Divorce Verification Letter

If you, a family member, or a company needs to verify and obtain legal documentation of a person’s Texas divorce record you can order and receive a Texas divorce verification letter that legally states whether a record of Texas divorce is on file with the State of Texas Vital Records office for an individual or not.

A Texas divorce verification letter or Texas annulment letter differ from a Texas divorce decree/Texas divorce certificate in that they don’t detail the specific terms of your Texas divorce. A Texas divorce decree includes specific terms such as child custody, pet custody, alimony, child support, spousal maintenance, cars, houses, who gets what personal belongings, etc.

The Texas divorce verification letter or Texas annulment letter will only state that you and your former spouse/partner are officially no longer legally married in the eyes of the State of Texas.

Texas divorce verification letters and Texas annulment letters can be issued for all legal Texas divorces or annulments that happened from 1968 to the present day. If a Texas divorce occurred before 1968, you will not be able to get a Texas verification of divorce letter or a Texas verification of annulment letter issued to you by the State of Texas Vital Records office.

Please note that official certified copies of your Texas divorce decree are only available from the Schleicher County district clerk’s office if that is the Texas county in which you were legally divorced in.

What are the steps to order my Texas birth, death, marriage, or divorce vital records?

  • First, download, complete, and print out the State of Texas required authorization form for the type of verification letter or certificate that you need to obtain for yourself or a family member. Then you’ll need go get the form notarized by a notary public. After it’s been correctly notarized, scan and email the authorization form back to Birth Certificate Texas.
  • Second, scan and email a valid (can’t be expired) photocopy of your U.S driver’s license, U.S passport, U.S state ID card, U.S military identification or U.S permanent resident card (Green Card) to Birth Certificate Texas. Please make sure it’s not a blurry photocopy of your ID, because if it’s a non-clear copy, Texas Vital Records could reject your records request, and we don’t want this to happen to you.
  • Third, download one of Birth Certificate Texas’s PDF order forms, complete it, and scan and email the order form back to us. You can also take a photo of the completed order form and email the order form to us once it has been fully filled out.
  • Finally, visit FedEx.com, UPS.com, or USPS.com to create and purchase a prepaid return shipping label, or you can purchase one in person at any local shipping place in your area. Once you create the prepaid shipping label online, you will download the PDF shipping label that you’ll receive from the shipping courier.

Then email us the shipping label PDF so we can print out it on our end and we’ll use it to mail all your documents back to you once we have obtained your requested documents from the Texas Vital Records office in Austin, TX.

Cities in Schleicher County, Texas that we can obtain Texas vital records documents for are Eldorado, Adams, Hulldale.