MR&C for Funeral Home Staff

Minnesota Registration and Certification (MR&C) is a statewide, web-based registration and issuance system. Authorized individuals enter, maintain, and use birth and death data while system checks improve data quality and ensure data confidentiality.

On this page:
Become an MR&C User
Death Registration Resources
MR&C User Guides

Become an MR&C User

Morticians and funeral home staff must sign an agreement to get user credentials for MR&C.

Complete and sign the Mortician or Funeral Home Staff User Agreement for MR&C (PDF). Send the user agreement to the Office of Vital Records. The Office of Vital Records will create the MR&C user account. MR&C will send the user’s log in information to the email address on the user agreement.

Email health.MRCAdmin@state.mn.us when an MR&C user leaves your establishment(s). The Office of Vital Records must disable the MR&C accounts of your former employees. In the email, give us the name of the former user. We will remove any associated funeral establishments and disable the user’s account.

Death Registration Resources

Funeral Director's Handbook: Death Registration and Fetal Death Reporting, 2019 Revision (PDF).
A CDC publication. It explains each data field on the U.S. Standard Certificate of Death and U.S. Standard Report of Fetal Death.

Guidelines for Reporting Occupation and Industry on Death Certificates (PDF)
Resource from CDC and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)

COVID-19 Resources

Vital Records Program Operations for Funeral Staff
NFDA Situation Update: Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
MDH Mortuary Science Funeral and Mortuary Science Guidance

MR&C User Guides

• Change or Cancel a Death Certificate Order (PDF)
• Correct a death record (PDF)
• Enter a death record(PDF)
• Manage records and certificate requests (PDF)
• Print death worksheet and other documents (PDF)
• Request death certificates (PDF)