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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