In a message dated 6/12/99 11:24:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > They would have been sporadic at best back then because it was not a law for > births or deaths to be recorded. The law didn't take effect until 1917, but > > even then it wasn't fully complied with until probably sometime in the 1920s. > > I think you're out of luck on this request -- unless maybe you can find > someone who has a Family Bible (if there was one). Sometimes you can find doctor's records, There was a woman on the Antique Roadshow last week, she had her mom's records from when she was an obstetrician, I wanted her to read the births out but of course she did not! If you don't watch you should, they have so much wonderful old stuff Sandy in Fla