This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CCC.2ACE/2984 Message Board Post: > Where can I find an early birth record? > Her name: Louise Hall born in Kelso,WA. on Nov. 11, 1886. > Kelso archives and vital office don't have it. > Olympia vital records do not have it. > Ida F. Hall > Burbank,CA. By not posting via the Rootsweb "Washington-L" mailing list site, your email did not post. You must have just sent an email to the list. To answer your question, if you tried the county records and the State of Washington Vital records without success, then you must recheck your information. Was she definately born as Louise Hall, and not under the maiden name of her mother? Or under another name and later adopted? Was she definately born in Kelso, WA, and not another location? Did you look for her parents in the 1880 census and find them in WA? (I know 1880 to 1886 is a long time to be able to move; but if both parents were in WA then, they probably were in 1886). Finally, if all of your facts are proven, then you have a very high chance that she was born and not recorded. Was she born at a hospital or out on the farm? If the county and state records aren't there, there 'may' be a record of it in the newspaper; but I doubt it. Also, check with the county to see if records could have been lost due to fire or other disasters. Good luck. Ron Bestrom

A couple of tidbits... The Kelso area didn't have a newspaper that early. There was no hospital. (And Longview wasn't built until 1923 so checking there would be fruitless.) Washington wasn't a state until 1889, it was a territory until then. shirley :) RBestrom@Earthlink.net wrote: >To answer your question, if you tried the county records and the State of Washington Vital records without success, then you must recheck your information. Was she definately born as Louise Hall, and not under the maiden name of her mother? Or under another name and later adopted? Was she definately born in Kelso, WA, and not another location? Did you look for her parents in the 1880 census and find them in WA? (I know 1880 to 1886 is a long time to be able to move; but if both parents were in WA then, they probably were in 1886). Finally, if all of your facts are proven, then you have a very high chance that she was born and not recorded. Was she born at a hospital or out on the farm? If the county and state records aren't there, there 'may' be a record of it in the newspaper; but I doubt it. Also, check with the county to see if records could have been lost due to fire or other disasters. > >Good luck. >Ron Bestrom > > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.6.2 - Release Date: 3-4-2005