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From: "Brian Cartwright" <>
Subject: Re: CAMBRIA CO. BIRTH CERT.
Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:11:45 -0400


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> From: David Monahan <>
> Date: Friday, May 15, 1998 3:39 PM
>
> There is no such thing [as a birth certificate] in the county until 1885,
and, even then, many were
> not recorded.. If you are lucky the church the individual was baptised
in
> might have a baptismal certificate listing a birth date. If the
individual
> was Catholic those records were published for Cambria County.
>

I called the courthouse last week.

Write to the Registrar of Wills. They have birth and death records for
Cambria Co from 1893 to 1905. (1906 and after, write to the state office in
New Castle). The fees are the same as the state, an official form is not
necessary, but give as much info as possible. Deaths are $3, births are $4,
they do not charge if they cannot find them, although the state charges per
search. I am going to include a check with no amount, but put in the memo
"not to exceed xxx".

I found 4 obits in the microfilm from the Cambria Library (I went in
person, but they do lookups by mail, $5 each). Each obit gave me a date of
death (I searched the yearly index to find the obits), one lead to a
verification of the spouse's death date. I am now going to write Ebensburg
for these five and one other death certificate, to fill various details
concerning the birth.

I received my first death certificate from the sate two weeks ago - listed
date and place of birth, names of parents (mother's maiden name),
occupation, residence at death, date and place of death, and cause of
death. The information was supplied by the next of kin, a son signing the
certificate as a witness.

Brian Cartwrig

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