There are times when you will not find an official birth record for a person. This could be because one never existed, or that it was lost to time. If you cannot find a birth record, there are...
Category - A Closer Look at Birth Records
Family Bibles: A Closer Look at Birth Records #3
One source of birth records that you might not have considered is the family Bible. These were popular in the 1700s and 1800s and were Bibles with blank pages for recording birth, death, and marriage...
Baptismal Records: A Closer Look at Birth Records #2
If you are searching for a birth record for an ancestor, you might not find one if official birth registration was not required at the time and in the place they were born. However, you will likely...
Birth Certificates: A Closer Look at Birth Records #1
Birth records are some of the first types of records you may look for when beginning your genealogy research. After all, most people in the western world have had some sort of documentation of their...