South Dakota Vital Records
Many web sites can help you find out more about your South Dakota ancestors. In the table of information below, you will find many SD web sites organized for you, including the type of record, the title, the web site address, the approx. number of records, the date range, whether or not it is free, and notes about the site. Come back often as we will be adding more and more genealogy web sites to help you learn more about using the Internet to find your genealogy.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree South Dakota Births | www.gencircles.com /globaltree/ and put SD in the birth place field | 0ver 13,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb South Dakota Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put South Dakota in the birth place field | 0ver 83,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb South Dakota Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put South Dakota in the marriage place field | 0ver 50,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb South Dakota Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put South Dakota in the death place field | 0ver 87,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: South Dakota | obits.rootsweb.com /cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put SD in the Keyword Search | 0ver 63,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree South Dakota Deaths | www.gencircles.com /globaltree/ and put SD in the death place field | 0ver 13,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
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