[JMS] Let me clarify the situation with Birth Certificates; I forgot to mention DEATH certificates were also required to be issued and RECORDED.

[Sherrill Watkins]

Friends of the Society: Before someone asks the question, I should explain
that the same Act of Congress requiring Birth Certificates to be issued and
recorded ALSO required the States to issue and record DEATH certificates.
(Most persons who died before 1912 very likely did NOT have any such record
issued and recorded by an official document. This is one of the many reasons
why genealogy is such a difficult subject to research.) -73- watt 

-----Original Message-----
From: james_millen_society-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:james_millen_society-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Sherrill
Watkins
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:24 AM
To: The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector
Subject: [JMS] Let me clarify the situation with Birth Certificates

Friends of the Society: In regards to Mr. James Millen's Birth Certificate,
please be advised that the respective States DID NOT begin to issue birth
certificates until they were required to do so by an Act of Congress in the
year 1912. This is because Congress passed an amendment(I think?)to the
Federal Census Act, circa 1910, requiring Birth Certificates to be issued and
recorded by each state beginning in 1912. Since James Millen was born BEFORE
1912, he initially DID NOT have a birth certificate issued by Virginia. He
would have had an OFFICIAL DELAYED CERTIFICATE OF BIRTH issued sometime AFTER
1912 and BEFORE he could begin to collect Social Security benefits when he
retired. This is a requirement of the S.S. Administration. It may or may not
be possible to obtain a copy of Mr. Millen's Birth Certificate but I will try
to do so. -73- watt  
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