Does anyone on this and the Perquimans County list live near Hertford? I would be very happy to pay someone to find some death certificates for me if they could go to the courthouse in Hertford and find them. I also need a transcript of the burials at Cedarwood cemetery if there is a cemetery book for Perquimans County. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Ross" <martingen@hotmail.com> To: <NCCHOWAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: May 05, 2000 5:13 PM Subject: Re: Death Cert. Answer > Dixie is correct with her information on NC birth/death certificates. I can > add that the state of NC did not begin officially recording same until 1913. > Anyone born before 1913 either had no certificate, or may have applied for a > Delayed Birth Certificate when they needed one for Social Security reasons, > or to prove their ages when drivers' licenses became a legal requirement, or > to apply for a passport, etc. Many (probably most) counties retain the > original certificates dating from 1913 in their court houses. > > Betsy Ross > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Dixchas@aol.com > To: NCCHOWAN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Death Cert. Answer > Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 17:19:40 EDT > > Per NC Research by Leary & Stirewalt, early requirements to record the > events > of births & deaths was largely ignored. Certificates usually appear in the > county in which the individual resided and sometimes in the county in which > the event took place. The NC Division of Health Services, Vital Records > Branch, P.O.Box 2091 Raleigh NC 27602 has copies of all b & d certificates > from 1930 to present. Death certificates prior to 1930 are at the NC State > Archives, Archives & Records Section. Dixie > > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >