[JMS] Let me clarify the situation with Birth Certificates; I forgot to menti

[Joe Rubin]

More power to Watt.   73   Joe  W4CBJ


>From: "Sherrill Watkins" <Sherrill.Watkins at dgs.virginia.gov>
>Reply-To: The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector 
><james_millen_society at mailman.qth.net>
>To: "The James Millen Society Members Email Reflector" 
><james_millen_society at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: RE: [JMS] Let me clarify the situation with Birth Certificates;I 
>forgot to mention DEATH certificates were also required to beissued and 
>RECORDED.
>Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:41:36 -0400
>
>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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