Just another kink in finding birth certificates...sometimes the family moved from the county or state before the birth was registered. For example, all of my grandfather's siblings were born in Hyde Park,Chicago,Illinois except for my grandfather & his sister who was born three years before him .At that time the family was in Paw,Paw, Michigan. But the family was back in Chicago three years later. When I contacted Paw Paw Co.Clerk, I was able to obtain a birth certificate for my great-aunt,but my Grandfather's birth was never registered in Michigan. Clerk told me that often happened if the family moved shortly after the child's birth..They would just register the birth in the next city or County , somewhere along the way,or after they had settled. I have to figure what possible route they might have taken in 1886 from PawPaw,Michigan to Chicago,Illinois & check for a birth certificate in Counties along the way. Anyone have any clues to travel routes between those two cities? Joanne