> > From: FPHUD@aol.com > Date: 2004/01/14 Wed PM 02:29:27 EST > To: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] L D S Information > > The State of Georgia did not require recordings of Births and Deaths until > 1921. I was born in 1918, and even though I spent 4.5 years in the Service > during WWII, I had to have a created (delayed) birth certificate before I could > get a passport in 1960. > > Birth and death records in Georgia are obtainable from Dept. of Health > Offices. > > > ==== GEORGIA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the Georgia list, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to GEORGIA-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest > List to GEORGIA-d-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > This isn't exactly accurate. Georgia began requiring state wide birth and death sertificates Jan. 1, 1919. Jimmy Woodyard

This is interesting... The "rules" must have changed in the course of the war. My dad had to get a "delayed birth certificate" during WWII and as I recall, it was the draft board in Fort Myers, Florida, that reguired this... probably during 1942. Dad was born in Grady County, Georgia, in 1911. RW woodyardjc@tds.net wrote: >>From: FPHUD@aol.com >>Date: 2004/01/14 Wed PM 02:29:27 EST >>To: GEORGIA-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [GEORGIA] L D S Information >> >>The State of Georgia did not require recordings of Births and Deaths until >>1921. I was born in 1918, and even though I spent 4.5 years in the Service >>during WWII, I had to have a created (delayed) birth certificate before I could >>get a passport in 1960. >> >>Birth and death records in Georgia are obtainable from Dept. of Health >>Offices. >>