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From: "J Torre" <>
Subject: Re: Help with a birth date
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:08:42 -0800
References: <MFMBM030D3JkUwWpSWe0000340b@mfmbm030.myfamilycorp.local>


The "liber" format is like a ledger with one line for each birth recorded.
It contains only date, surname, given name of child if any, given name of
father, given name of mother, address where born, name and address of doctor
or midwife (if any) who attended the birth.

J Torre

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Subject: Re: Help with a birth date

> This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.
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> http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TUB.2ACI/4192.3
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> New York City (Manhattan) did not issue birth certs until 1866. Before
then births were recorded in liber format. The liber is on microfilm at the
New York City Municipal Archives, 31 Chambers Street, Room 103, NY, NY.
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> Charlotte Vosser was listed in the 1870 census (NARA Pub M593, microfilm #
992, ED 10, Ward 14, page 345) with her parents and siblings. Her age was
given as 14, so maybe she was born in 1856.
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