Hi, People usually didn't name the baby until they were baptised... The other "reason" was that if the devil knew the babys' name he could take it... AND, I finally found out why boy babies were dressed in "girl clothes"... I asked my Granny, but, she didn't know... just said it was the style... In Ireland and Wales and Scotland, the belief was that Banshees would steal a baby boy, but, they didn't want "useless" girls... So, the Mothers dressed the boys in girl clothes until they were past a year old... Dixie Lea in K.C... Looking for Benjamine F. Evans in Penn... 1776... ----- Original Message ----- From: Laurie To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [PA] Question about Birth Certificates I'm working my way through Scranton births using a film at the LDS Family History Center, and many of the children do not have names in the birth registers. These go up to 1905, so it's certainly possible that baby girl is exactly how she was listed, as gender and color was listed but not always a name. ----- Original Message ----- : Has anyone sent for a copy of a birth certificate in Pennsylvania. I sent : for a copy of my mother-in-laws Birth Certificate. She was born in 1909 and : there has been a question about how her name was listed on the certificate. : So I sent to the State of Pennsylvania for a copy of her certificate stating : that I wanted it for Genealogical research and gave them all the information : as I knew it. What I got back was a new Birth Certificate with a raised : seal which did not give me the information that would have been on the : original certificate. Also it stated her name as Baby Girl Harner. : : What I would like to know is if this is standard practice in this day of ID : theft or is this the way her certificate actually listed her name. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message