births

  • Early Hospital Births were Cheap

    Feb 7

    If you found or had located hospital bills for the birth of children from decades ago. Examining them can be amazing. In a look years ago the hospital bills for births were much lower. An example, in the 1950s with birth and multiple days stay the cost after insurance was about $10.75 and that included oxygen and an incubator. An example from 1...

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  • BMD – UK Records

    Apr 7

    There is available the FreeBMD project for births, marriage and deaths in England and Wales. The records begin 1837 and cover to 1992. Note, not every date and year are completed yet, but they are being worked on, last updated on March 12, 2020. There are nearly 359 million records. Even if you had researched this source years ago, remem...

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  • 1841-1910 – Vital Records of Massachusetts

    Jun 27

    The state of Massachusetts has a very long history, being one of the original British colonies and the site of the Pilgrims landing in 1621. So you could have ancestors who lived, married, worked or died in Massachusetts. 1848 The state archives have online a search site for index of vital records covering 1841 to 1910 in Massachusetts. ...

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  • Ontario, Canada – BMD

    Mar 15

    The newest databases to search from Ancestry.com is for Births-Marriages and Deaths in Ontario, Canada. With it being on the northern border with the United States, many individuals on both sides have been in the US and / or Canada, especially in Ontario. Using the subscript-fee site with three important area – births – marriages – deaths, y...

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  • California Birth Records 1905-1995

    Jan 5

    Do you have any relative born in the state of California between 1905 and 1995 (most of the 20th century)? Those records are in the form of an index collection which includes the name of the child, name of the mother, date of birth, and county and covers about 24,614,871 California births. The index is part of the online 'American Ancestors.org'. ...

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  • Irish Records Online

    Sep 12

    [caption id="attachment_15852" align="alignleft" width="300"] Irish Cottage[/caption] The Irish immigrants make up a large percentage of people's heritage in America. Usually, people may have at least one ancestor on their tree who originated in Ireland. The IrishGenealogy IE web site has now made available, online and free, a searchable data...

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  • Family Bible as a Resource

    May 31

    Before county-state records were officially recorded for births-marriages and deaths, these records were kept in the churches. However, if a person was born at home, not have a baptismal, married by a circuit rider, or buried in a family graveyard, there might not be any church records. Yet, most every family households (even non-religious ones) ha...

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  • Bible Records Database – DAR

    Jun 21

    One of the important research sources are found in the family Bibles - the record pages of births-marriages and deaths. Here one or more family members over the years the Bible was held by the family made a written record (sometimes the only record) of major family events such as birth dates, marriage ceremonies and death dates along with those i...

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  • Your Birth # Number

    Jan 21

    Just like there are horoscopes to help figure out a person's behavior and possible future actions, there is another method - Your Birth Number. Here it is a simple matter of taking your birth month, day and year; convert them to numbers and then keep adding them together until you have one single number. This is known as numerology. Then there...

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  • California Birth Indexes 1905-1995

    Aug 31

    Having online databases has made some aspect of family history research much easier. It is still good to have the actual copy of vital records by requesting from the state or county for a birth, marriage or death records. The California Birth Index has made it easy for a research to even know if a birth record exists for a relative. The Califor...

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