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Recorded Webinar with Diane Richard
February 4, 2022 – February 6, 2022 EST
The North Carolina Genealogical Society is delighted to present:
Diane L. Richard
“Pre-1913 Vital Records: Challenging and Elusive and Not Necessarily Impossible to Find”
This recorded Webinar will be freely available to the public from midnight Thursday night through midnight Sunday night (EST), 4-6 February 2022. (The live webinar was originally presented on 16 Jan 2015.)
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About the Webinar:
Though North Carolina didn’t start officially requiring Birth Certificates and Death Certificates until 1913 (and full compliance wasn’t fully achieved until as late as WWII), it doesn’t mean that you cannot determine when and where earlier birth, marriage, and death events occurred. So, what can you do when a certain official vital record cannot be found?
Well, you can search for the next best thing—what we call a substitute record. This means that we have to be more creative in our pursuit of this information.
Some locales did start registration of such events as early as the 1880s and various Civil War records can be quite informative. Newspapers, church, voting, cemetery, estate, court, tax, directory, and school records can all help us sometimes identify those elusive birth, marriage, or death dates and places, or at least give us a better and more narrow approximation of when and where. Let’s take a look at some examples of pre-1913 vital records substitutes – both the obvious and those that are a bit more obscure.
About the Speaker:
Diane L. Richard is a professional genealogist and owner of Mosaic Research and Project Management. She has been doing genealogy research since 1987 and since 2004 has focused more on the records of North Carolina, including African American (and slave) research and into those who migrated into, through, or out of North Carolina.
Diane is a member of the national and local chapters of the Association of Professional Genealogists and the Genealogical Speakers Guild. She is the editor of Upfront with NGS, the blog of the National Genealogical Society, and Wake Treasures, the journal of the Wake County Genealogical Society. She is a regular author for Internet Genealogy and Your Genealogy Today. Diane can be found online at www.mosaicrpm.com.
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