Shelly Live births and then the child dies shortly after should be in the WA Death Index, most of the soundex codes have several unnamed children at the beginning of the list (before the letter A). I was told stillborn children are not supposed to be in the death Index, don't know if that is true or not. Charles ----- Original Message ----- From: <SChance47@aol.com> To: <WASPOKAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 9:59 PM Subject: [WASPOKANE] Death Certicates > Charles, can you answer a question for me? If a baby is born, but dies > shortly after, is there a live birth certificate and a death certificate > issued for the same day? I'm trying to locate these records for a baby born > in Spokane in 1939 or 40. I'm not sure if the baby was named or not. Thanks > for your time. > > Shelly Chance Galloway > > > ==== WASPOKAN Mailing List ==== > Spokane County GenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~waspokan/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237