Birth records

Learn how to find your ancestors’ birth record online or at an archive, plus when they were created, what details they hold, and what can serve as substitutes.

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Rachel Brown has one child with Ellis Theodore Anderson.

Birth records are some of the first types of records you may look for when beginning your genealogy research. After all, most people in the western world have had some sort of documentation of their birth for the past thousand years. Modern birth certificates began being issued between 100 and 150 years ago. This is the information you might find on these documents.

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Eva Childress Birth Record

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See how straightforward it can be to read and understand an Italian birth record.