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Birth Notices and Your Ancestry Quest
Birth notices are forms of birth records that can prove helpful when you’re
attempting to establish your line of ancestry. The tradition of announcing
births through birth notices have been in existence for more than a century and
numerous indexes and archives of birth notices are available online to aid you
in your quest.
Simple birth
notices contain the child’s date of birth, name, sex, and parents’ names,
although more detailed birth notices may contain other baby facts, like the
length and weight of the newborn, the names of his or her grandparents, his or
her hospital and doctor, number and names of the siblings, and residence
addresses.
Archives for birth
notices are often classified according to date and location. Every state, town,
or county may have their own library of birth notices.
Knowing the birth
place and full name of your ancestors (maiden name, in case of female relatives)
can be a critical first step towards building that family tree.
Birth Notices: Trip Down Memory Lane
Perhaps, the best
way to begin your genealogy quest is to begin investigating those scrapbooks
and other family records (passports, driver’s licenses, bible records,
citizenship papers, etc.) up in the attic. If you don’t have these, you have the
option of getting in touch with relatives and old family friends who may supply
you with the data you need.
Some 19th
century newspapers published birth notices or wrote them in community columns.
Taking a peek at these old birth notices can also provide you with useful
information, particularly the maiden name of your female ancestors.
Don’t forget to
check out other places where you can dig up more useful genealogical
information.
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Vital records offices are great sources for birth notices and certificates,
marriage, divorce, and death records.
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Baptism, christening, and marriage records can be found among church records.
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Marriage banns and obituaries are often found by browsing through old
newspaper notices.
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Checking
military records can give you information on the
service records, draft
registrations, discharge papers, and pension files of your ancestors.
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Census
and tax
records
can also give you an idea of the age of your ancestors by the time the record
was taken.
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Cemetery records,
which may consist of tombstones,
funeral home records, and sexton's records
can help you find out the lifespan of
your ancestors.
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Land and property
records
can provide clues pertaining to a person’s place of birth.
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Probate records,
such as wills and estate records, provide the age of death and let you
approximate a person’s year of birth.
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Immigration
records,
citizenship papers,
ships passenger lists, port entry/exit records can also be sources
of valuable genealogical information.
Birth Announcements as
Birth Notices
Birth notices can
be a great way for parents to show and share their happiness with the arrival of
their child. Normally, birth notices are given out as fancy birth announcements
soon after a child is born.
Birth notices to
family and friends can include a photo of your newborn and/or an appropriate
message for the occasion.
While birth notices are often
printed in newspaper dailies, personal notices to family and friends render the
occasion more value as you welcome your new family member into the world.
More
information about birth notices and other documents that may help you in your
genealogical search is available at the
Birth Records section of
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