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From: JOYCE MCCORKLE <>
Subject: Re: [GAFULTON] Atlanta's "earlier birth records"
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 14:56:40 -0700

Lin - My Mom was able to get me copies of her brother and sisters birth
certificates only after she showed Fulton Co. Vitals a copy of their
death certificates - they were born in 1902 and 1908. You might check
with Atlanta History Center http://www.atlhist.org/.

Joyce McCorkle

Lin wrote:
>
> Can any of you who are familiar with the Atlanta area
> please tell me when Atlanta began keeping
> BIRTH RECORDS?
>
> I've read that the "State office has had birth and death
> records since January 1919" but that Atlanta and
> Savannah had "earlier records".
>
> What this doesn't say is how MUCH earlier those
> "earlier records" would be.
>
> My great-grandfather and his last wife moved to
> Atlanta and had a whole new family of five children
> born between about April 1908 and July 1918.
> Would they have had birth certificates in those
> "earlier records" of Atlanta?
>
> Also, the Fulton Co GA website (which also gives
> no dates) explains how to get certified copies
> and states that only people whose names appear
> on the records can get them at all. Isn't there some
> provision for genealogists to get uncertified copies
> of deceased great-uncles' and great-aunts' birth records?
>
> Thanks for any help and advice!
>
> Lin
> Saint Leonard's on Sea, England
> Researching WALKER

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