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Birth and Death Records

Public Records

The records in this list may give a person's date and/or place of birth or death.


Birth and Death Certificates
Marriage Records (usually after 1900)
Church Registers
Burial Permits
Tombstone Inscriptions
Sexton's Records
Military Enlistment Papers
Military Pension Application Files
World War I Draft Registration Cards
Military Discharges
Social Security Account Applications
Naturalization Files
Passport Applications
Passenger Lists

Finding Aids

 
Kemp, Thomas J., comp. International Vital Records Handbook , 3d ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Where to Write for Vital Records: Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Divorces. Hyattsville, Md.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, PublicHealth Service, 1996.

Suggested Reading

 
Cerny, Johni. "Research in Birth, Death, and Cemetery Records." The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking, eds. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997: 59-84.

Greenwood, Val D. The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy , 2d ed., Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990.

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