I believe that stillborns are listed in a separate register from other deaths. I am basing this on my memory of searching LDS microfilms for deaths. Veronica > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 7:44:34 -0400 > From: <ocalawoods@cfl.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] death certificate > To: nyc-roots@rootsweb.com > Cc: Irishcolleen45@aol.com > Message-ID: <20111020114434.5W87F.88471.root@cdptpa-web11-z01> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > When my mother had a still birth in 1939 in NJ, it was written in a ledger book > of the paupers cemetery. That was it.( they just took my mom's child and she never ever saw her > son again. She had no idea where they had taken the baby. > > I would have never found it if a man > on line had info cause the NJ turnpike was tearing/digging up an area for construction. > Since it was not a live birth, it is not recorded > and since it was not a live birth it was not alive so it could not have a death certificate > Confusing. > Kathleen > ---- Irishcolleen45@aol.com wrote: > > Does anyone know what the policy was back in the late 1940s regarding a > > still birth? Would a certificate be issued? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Nora > >