The Missouri Birth and Death Records database is an abstract of the birth, stillbirth, and death records recorded before 1909 and that are available on microfilm at the Missouri State Archives.

The Bureau of Vital Statics has certificates of Missouri births from 1910 to the present. The Bureau also maintains certificates of Missouri deaths that are less than fifty years old.

The database currently contains over 185,000 records from 87 of the 114 counties. Information found in the database includes information for New Madrid County on the following:

Births and Stillbirths: name of child, date and place of birth, sex, and race; nationality, residence and ages of parents, occupation and full name of father, maiden name of mother, name and address of medical or other attendant making return; in case of stillbirth, name of undertaker and place of burial.

Deaths: date of report, name, sex, color, age, occupation, marital status, nationality, birthplace; date, place and cause of death; date and place of burial, addresses of undertaker, physician returning certificate.