There are no birth certificates from 1802. Births in Philadelphia were not registered until 1850 and most people did not obey that regulation. Universal birth registration did not really begin until Social Security was enacted. Births from 1802 may be recorded in church baptismal records. Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights. > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:21:36 -0700 > From: thompsons_of_pennsylvania@yahoo.com > To: paphilad@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAPhl] philadelphia birth records circa 1802 > > Does anyone happen to know if there is a place to search for birth certificates from about 1802 in Philadelphia? > Thanks, > Trudi > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAPHILAD > ********* > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAPHILAD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Gene, Thank you for responding, it was a shot in the dark trying to find where my 5GGF was born. Trudi --- On Sat, 4/3/10, Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> wrote: From: Eugene Stackhouse <genestackhouse@msn.com> Subject: Re: [PAPhl] philadelphia birth records circa 1802 To: paphilad@rootsweb.com Date: Saturday, April 3, 2010, 5:32 PM There are no birth certificates from 1802. Births in Philadelphia were not registered until 1850 and most people did not obey that regulation. Universal birth registration did not really begin until Social Security was enacted. Births from 1802 may be recorded in church baptismal records. Gene Stackhouse in Germantown Heights. > Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 09:21:36 -0700 > From: thompsons_of_pennsylvania@yahoo.com > To: paphilad@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PAPhl] philadelphia birth records circa 1802 > > Does anyone happen to know if there is a place to search for birth certificates from about 1802 in Philadelphia? > Thanks, > Trudi > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAPHILAD > ********* > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAPHILAD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message                           ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAPHILAD ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAPHILAD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message