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From: "Betty Hughson" <>
Subject: Re: [NYMONROE-L] Funeral Home records/burial permits
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 13:15:00 -0400
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If the decendent was a woman, could the Medical Attendant have been a
midwife?

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From: "rjknauf" <>
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Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:15 PM
Subject: [NYMONROE-L] Funeral Home records/burial permits


> Would anyone know if records from undertaker "L Schauman" of Rochester
NY,
> in business in 1899, be obtainable? Also interested in what information a
> burial permit would show. On a recently obtained death cert from City of
> Rochester, is listed"Medical Attendance or other Attestant..."Shirley R
> Snow" and wonder, since this is an 1899 cert., how come a woman's name is
> there. Would she have been a nurse, do you think,...as wasn't it unusual
> for a woman to hold any Administrative job as "Medical Attendant" in
those
> years.
> Jeannette
>
>
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