To answer your first question regarding a birth record for Shadrack L. Hale... Georgia did not require birth or death records until 1919 and many did not comply to have either recorded until much later. The answer to your question... there will not be a birth record on file within the county or state. Your best bet will be either to find it in an old family Bible or a death certificate if one was filed at his death. We have in our Library (Dade Co Library) a very good book on the Hales/Hails which was done a few years ago. I say very good as it is well documented... the only problem being there is no index. The man who did this book is currently working on another Hale book. Later today I'll check to see if he has anything in it regarding your family. Sue -----Original Message----- From: gys88@yahoo.com Sent: Feb 8, 2004 8:58 PM To: GADADE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GADADE] Shadrack L. Hale 1846 Dade Co This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Ua.2ADI/414 Message Board Post: Can anyone get me a copy of Shadrack L. Hale's birth record. Dec 16 1846 Parents: George C. Hale from TN and Margaret ?from TN Will reimburse for any cost. ==== GADADE Mailing List ==== Search the GADADE mailing list archive at http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=GADADE