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From: "Steve Hayes" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] RE: CROSSON USA
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 06:15:11 +0200
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On 20 Jan 2006 at 23:32, Andrew Rodger wrote:

> Bear in mind that the USA is not a Union but a Federation, and the
> number of States grew in 200 years from the original 13 to 50, each
> almost sovereign and each with its own system of BMD registration. (In
> this respect it differs from Australia, also a Federation, where BMD is
> a Federal responsibility and therefore uniform across the six States
> and two Territories.)

When did that happen? It must have been fairly recent, because BMD
registration started becore the Commonwealth, and each colony had its own
system,. What was useful for genealogists was that the eastern colonies
adopted the Archer system, and have much fuller recrods than the others, and
certainly much fuller records than the South African ones.
--
Steve Hayes
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