Georgia Birth Certificate: Order a Certified Copy Online

Relatives who can order and the proof each one needs

Georgia's list of eligible requesters comes with a matching list of proof:

• Parent: must be named on the certificate and send photo ID.
• Grandparent: the birth certificate of the registrant's parent, which links the two generations.
• Adult child or adult sibling: their own birth certificate showing a parent in common, with a signed photo ID.
• Spouse: the marriage certificate, a copy of the registrant's signed ID and a notarized letter from the registrant giving permission.
• Legal guardian: a certified court order.
• Attorney: a notarized letter on letterhead with the bar number, the client and the reason.

Aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws are not on the list.

Cobb County, Fulton County and all 159 county offices

The state office holds Georgia births from January 1919 onward; for anything earlier, the county of birth or the Georgia Archives is the place to look. Georgia's own vital records office says that all 159 county vital records offices can issue birth certificates for any Georgia birth, so someone born in Cobb County or Fulton County, or anywhere else in the state, can use the nearest county office. Counties can also start amendments, paternity acknowledgments and delayed certificates, while a few services, such as foreign adoptions and home-birth registrations, are handled only by the state office by mail.

What Georgia asks for on the application

The state's search request form asks for the registrant's legal name and last name at birth, sex, date and place of birth, current age and race, and each parent's legal name and last name at birth, together with the requester's contact details, relationship and signature. A photocopy of a valid photo ID goes with it. Accepted IDs include a Georgia driver's license or ID card that is current or expired by no more than a year, an unexpired license or ID from another state, a passport from any country, a military, dependent or veteran ID, a consulate card, a TWIC card, a current school ID with a number and signature, and a Department of Corrections ID. Digital IDs on a phone are not accepted.

Pen-in-hand copies for use abroad

A standard certified copy serves for identity, school enrollment, a driver's license, taxes and health insurance. For international travel or an apostille, Georgia offers a pen-in-hand certified copy that carries an original staff signature, which foreign authorities and the apostille process usually expect. Ask for that version up front when the copy is headed overseas, rather than ordering a second copy later.

Adoptees and Andee's Law

Since July 2025 Georgia lets adoptees born in the state request an uncertified copy of their original birth certificate once they are eighteen; after an adoptee's death, a parent, sibling or direct-line descendant may ask, with a copy of the death certificate. Those originals come only from the state office, not from county registrars. Court orders that change a record are kept in a sealed file that only a court or the State Registrar may open. Corrections in the first year after a birth follow a simpler path than later amendments for a name change, adoption, legitimation or paternity.

How it works when you order with BirthChek

The BirthChek form asks who you are to the registrant using the relationships Georgia recognizes, and if yours is not one of them it tells you so before checkout. You enter the details the state form needs, including each parent's last name at birth, upload your photo ID front and back, and sign the authorization that lets us file for you. Our team reviews the request, files it, and keeps your order page current until the certificate ships.