This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UkB.2ACI/4857.1 Message Board Post: Sandy, Texas did not require the recording of vital statistics until 1903. Your grandmother probably filed for a delayed record of birth in her later years if she wanted to file for "old age pension" now known as SS. A record of birth was required to do so. I have one grandmother who was born in 1890 and she did not file for a record of her birth until the 1960's. She had to find two people who could attest to the fact that they knew who her parents were and that she indeed had been born in the county she filed in to these people. You need to call/write the courthouse and see if they will check for a delayed record. If she moved from Collin county she also could have filed in county of residence when/if she filed. Paula