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From: "Jeri C." <>
Subject: Re: [MIGENESE] MIGENESE Digest, Vol 3, Issue 14
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 16:58:32 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <d2f.18a13078.3501d897@aol.com>
Thank you Arlene but I have the other records it is just there was never a
"legal" birth record - just the handwritten baptismal record and that was always accepted as legal document.
I should have made myself a little clearer -
Southern Lady had written she could not locate a birth certificate for her Grandmother and wrote..."You would think she would have needed sometime in life....to marry".
I was just making the comment (and did not explain what I was trying to say) that there were other things accepted many years ago as legal documents in place of a birth certificate.
Sorry for the confusion - my fingers were typing faster than my brain was working :)
Jeri
wrote:
Jeri,
I'd be happy to find anything. You would think in 1906 that their would be
a marriage record, at least.
Arlene
In a message dated 3/6/2008 6:25:03 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Southern Lady -
My grandmother was born in 1904, at home in northern Michigan and did not
have a birth certificate.
What she used and I still have the paper, is a handwritten piece of paper
from the minister of the church where she was baptised as an infant.
It is plain notebook type paper .
That is what she used through out her life for a proof of birth age.
Jeri
wrote:
Marsha,
It has to make you wonder.....I sent to State of Mi. and have checked with
several counties on a birth certificate for my Grandmother. No one has been
able to find the record. Could it be possible it was never registered?
(1885)
You would think she would have needed sometime in life....to marry.....but
then they can't find that one either. I do have a death certificate. Go
figure!
Southern Lady
In a message dated 3/6/2008 4:01:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
Dear Grace,
I had not heard of that and would have never thought it possible that
anyone
could be so rotten. I hope the clerks were fired.
I sent Lansing a request with the date of death gleaned from papers of the
Kalamazoo City Health Officer, but Lansing could find no death certificate.
Of course Kalamazoo could find none either, so it must have been filed
under a
very weird name misspelling.
Marsha
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