Yes, you can get your birth certificate from Clallam County Health & Human Services if you were born anywhere in Washington State from 1923 to the Present.

If you were born in Washington State before 1923, see the Washington State Department of Health website:  http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/CHS/cert.htm

If you were NOT born in Washington State, see the website: vitalchek.com  for more information.

For applications received Monday through Thursday, certificates will be available for pick-up Fridays after 1:00 p.m. or can be mailed upon request.  For applications received on Fridays, the birth certificate will be ready the following Friday.  The fee for a certified birth certificate is $20.00 per copy.

For an additional fee of $10.00 (total $30.00), the certified birth certificate can be expedited and picked up the following day after 1:00 p.m.

Office hours for customer service are:

Clallam County Courthouse – Basement
223 East 4^th Street, Room 010
Port Angeles, WA 98362

The parking lot is located on the NW corner of 4^th and Peabody Streets.

No, you may hear this document referred to as a "Certified Copy" or an "Original Certificate".
Birth certificates issued are certified copies printed on special certified paper with a printed and raised seal.

No, credit card sized copies of birth certificates are no longer available. Not all of the required information was provided on them so they became invalid documents by federal law in 1989.

An Apostille is a document that authenticates notaries' or state officials' signatures for foreign use, e.g. foreign-born adoptions, marriages overseas, etc. Apostilles are prepared by the Washington State Secretary of State Office in Olympia, WA at:

Secretary of State
Corporations Division
Apostille and Certificate Program
801 Capitol Way South
Olympia, WA 98504
Online: www.secstate.wa.gov/apostilles

The Affidavit for Correction form is on the back of the birth certificate along with instructions.  The certificate will not be available until the Department of Health in Olympia processes the change affidavit.  If you bring the original certificate into our office (during regular office hours), we will exchange for the corrected original at no charge. 

If you were born between the years of 1949 to 1967, no times were reported on births. You should check with the hospital where you were born to see if they have retained original records of your birth which may indicate the time.

In many cases it is because the parents were not married at the time of the child's birth.  Unless both sign and file a Paternity Affidavit at the time of the child's birth, the father will not automatically be listed on the birth certificate.

To add the father, a Paternity Affidavit signed by both parents, or a Court Order specifically stating to add the father to the birth certificate, can be filed with the Washington State Department of Health to amend the birth certificate.

There is an application that can be filled out to request a search for a death verification (IF the death occurred in Clallam County).  The fee is $8.00 to search a 10 year period.  The result will confirm that the person either did or didn't die IN CLALLAM COUNTY and a specific date.  To order a copy of the specific death certificate, you would be referred to the Washington State Department of Health http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/CHS/cert.htm

Sorry, but there is no master list of names of people who have died in Clallam County available to the public. Customers may purchase death certificates by following the necessary application process.