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Vital Records

Birth, Baptismal, Death and Marriage Records

Practice Tree - Ancestry

Vital Records - Births

• United States:• Most states began requiring registration of births in

first quarter of 20th century

• Many cities had a requirement years before this:• State of TN – 1914; City of Nashville – 1881

• Earliest city – New Orleans (1790); Earliest state–Delaware (1860)

• International:• England – 1837; Scotland – 1855; Ireland – 1864

• Not formally a law until 1874

Oct-Dec, 1840 – Liverpool, England

Marriage Records:George K Mallison – Lizzie Evetts

Beaufort County 15 Jan 1879

Lizzie Mallison – 1880 Mortality Schedules• Married 15 Jan 1879

• Died of peritonitis Nov 1879 (childbirth?)

John Benjamin Mallison

• Living with Grandma Sally in 1880 in Beaufort County; George has moved on to Hyde County where he meets Emma Satterthwaite

Marriage Certificates

• Beaufort, County, NC – 15 Nov 1880

• George Kelly Mallison – Emma”Sallerchuatte” Satterthwaite

Marriage Records

Records:

• Marriage banns

• Marriage bonds

• Applications

• Consent papers

• Contracts

• Certificates and licenses

What You Can Learn from Marriage Records:

• Age at time of marriage

• Church of marriage ceremony

• County where the marriage took place

• Date and/or place of birth for bride and groom

• Date of the marriage

• Full names of bride and groom

• Name of minister or priest

• Names and birthplaces of the bride’s and groom’s parents

• Names of the witnesses to the marriage, often relatives

• Occupation

• Residence of the parties

• Whether single, widowed or divorced

1882 Register of Marriage:

Matilda Mallison -

Joshua Bland

Death Certificates >1900

Searchable Sites

http://www.italiangen.org/

• Slack Family Tree