MS did not have birth/death certificates in 1898. It was something like 1912. There may have been a notice in the newspaper depending on if the newspaper was told or if the family "had a standing" in the town/county. My dad was also born in 1898; I have located him on the 1900, 1910, 1920 & 1930 census--all with a different spelling of his name and at least one having him a female! He never lived long enough to collect S.S. and probably did not work at a job that would require a S. S. [logger, farmer, etc.] My mother, born in the early 1900's, applied for S.S. card in the mid-1950's. Social Security went back to the censuses, 1910 was the first census for her, and school records; she was born in one county, started school in another, and was in yet another by 1920 and by 1930 was back in her birth county. S. S. rooted all of this out and issued her a card based upon information that they found that collaborated a letter from someone present when she was born. S. S. gave her a copy of those papers to keep. I knew the county where my parents got married because my mom had given me her marriage license. Then somebody told me the county had no record of them being married there. I went to the county courthouse and ask for the book that had their wedding date. Going page by page until I located the marriage record. It had not been indexed and the index is what the clerks depend on when they're asked about a marriage. The clerk indexed the marriage for me some 50+ years after they married. If your dad or mom ever made application for a S.S. card, you can ask S.S. for a copy [for a fee] and that application usually lists the parents names; and the person's birth date, etc. Another thing, if you know where your parents died, contact that state's vital statistics office for a copy of death certificate. The d.c. will have some info [birth/place/death/place/where buried/and depending on who gave the info names of parents/spouse, etc.] The d.c. will also have a fee. When one of my children was born we were both fingerprinted, and baby had footprints done also. I guess that still may be somewhere in the hospital's old records. I don't know anything about accessing old hospital records. -----Original Message----- From: JANICE KNOWLTON <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Monday, March 01, 2004 3:12 PM Subject: RE: [MISSISSIPPI] Re: Fannie (unknown) Smith >My father was born in 1898 and was unable to get a birth certificate because >the courthouse burned to the ground. This is what I was told anyway. > >Jan > > >>From: "Patsy V. Bostick" <[email protected]> >>Reply-To: [email protected] >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [MISSISSIPPI] Re: Fannie (unknown) Smith >>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:26:46 -0600 >> >>There are marriage records in the Pike County courthouse after 1882. >>An inquiry may find a marriage license for William Christian Smith and >>Fannie >> >>In 1940 there were two funeral homes in McComb: >>Catching's Funeral Home, 506 Maryland Ave., McComb, MS, 39648 >>Hartman Funeral Home, 1801 Delaware Ave., McComb >> If you can obtain a specific date from the funeral home the Library >>likely >>would check the newspaper on microfilm for an obituary for the date and >>make a copy. >> >>The Library has a web site with links to the catalog including the >>genealogy >>collection. >>http://www.pawls.lib.ms.us/ >> >>Patsy >> >> >> >>==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== >>Visit the Mississippi-L Website at http://www.rootsweb.com/~mississi >>where you can both SUBSCRIBE and UNSUBSCRIBE with a click of the mouse. >> >>============================== >>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 >> > > > >==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== >To subscribe and Unsubscribe with ease, visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~mississi and scroll down and click the appropriate link for the list you want, then click on Send > >============================== >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 > ==== MISSISSIPPI Mailing List ==== To subscribe and Unsubscribe with ease, visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~mississi and scroll down and click the appropriate link for the list you want, then click on Send ============================== 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