[email protected] wrote: > > Hi, > I just subscribed to this mailing list. I am researching my mother's family > tree. She was born in 1927 in Newport, Tennessee. Can anyone please tell me > how to locate her birth certificate? Elizabeth, Welcome! You might want to bookmark the Tennessee GenWeb pages at http://www.tngenweb.org/ the Tennessee Rootsweb pages at http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/USA/tn.html and the East Tennessee Historical Society at http://www.korrnet.org/eths/ But to answer your question (this from the rootsweb site): Tennessee Vital Records Central Services Building, 1st Floor 421 5th Avenue North Nashville, TN 37247-0450 (615) 741-1763 Credit Card request: (615) 741-0778 Fax: (615) 741-9860 Birth Records Records are available beginning with January 1914 births. Records of some births that occurred in the major cities from 1881-1913 are also available. A certified photocopy of the original record may be obtained at a fee of $10.00 for the first copy and $2.00 for each additional copy of the same record requested at the same time. For persons born from 1949 to the present, a certified copy produced by computer is also available at a fee of $5.00 for the first copy and $2.00 for each additional copy of the same record requested at the same time. Make your request by providing the Office of Vital Records with: the type of certificate (birth, death, marriage or divorce) being requested the name(s) on the record the date of the event the city or county where the event occurred for births, the mother's maiden name and the father's name the number of copies you want a check or money order made payable to Tennessee Vital Records your signature and relationship to the person named on the record the address to which the copy should be mailed a daytime telephone number