Hello, I'd like to make an observation regarding the registration of twin births.  I knew my father was a twin because my grandmother told me and it was widely known.  My father's twin died in infancy.  When researching my father's birth in church records in Poland (but this could apply to any birth record),  I found that his twin was actually born two days after my dad.  His birth was recorded separately from my dad's.   After some researching online, I discovered that a twin could be born many days or even weeks after the first birth.  If it had occurred much later and I didn't know for a fact that there was a twin, it may have thrown off my research. Anyway, I thought I'd share that little tidbit with everyone.  So, keep in mind all the interesting facts that crop up in genealogy that could make our research a little more challenging.  Daniela   ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, July 14, 2011 9:25:17 AM Subject: Re: [A-L] Recording birth of twins in 1826?? There was no standard way of recording the birth of twins in church parish records. I can't speak for civil records. I haven't had much in the way of twins in Alsace. However in Baden, just over the Rhine, there were basically two ways I find them recorded. One, both twins listed together on the same record. Even if one died the same day, in which case it indicated so in the record or stated the child as a stillbirth. Two, separately in two records. Again if died the same day it would say "born and died", or "born at xx:xx and died at yy:yy", or stillborn. I even have a record for triplets, all in a single record. I would imagine even the civil records in Alsace would be similar. They may have had rules, but there's always one in the crowd who will do it the way they want to anyway. It's inconceivable that if a child was a twin, it wouldn't be noted in the record or that only one was recorded, unless the family wanted to hide it. My take is, if you find one of the supposed twins and not the other, unless you have some other authoritative record calling one child or the other  a twin it's just not so. Brian On Thu, July 14, 2011 7:10 am, shill wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone shed light on how twin births were usually recorded?  Would > they > have been listed in same entry or separately? > -- Resources for Alsace-Lorraine list members: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~valorie/Alsace-Lorraine-L.htm  ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message