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From: "Meredith Clapper" <>
Subject: Re: [GACOBB] Death Records
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:37:16 -0500
References: <00fb01c1c06a$885ac140$132545cf@brenda>


I have actually gotten some death certificates prior to 1919 for people that
died in Atlanta. They obviously started prior to the rest of the state, but
I have no idea when they started. I know I have one from 1917.
----- Original Message -----
From: Brenda Pierce <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 10:13 AM
Subject: [GACOBB] Birth/Marriage/Death Records


> I answered a couple of emails about this previously, but I did find the
> dates for the particular counties. So this gives a little better idea than
> what I had posted -
> Tx. Brenda
>
>
> In general, there are no official birth or death certificates before 1919
in
> Georgia. However, there are some exceptions to this rule. An 1875 Act of
the
> Georgia General Assembly mandated statewide registration of births,
deaths,
> and marriages. Few counties complied with this law and even fewer citizens
> within those counties reported the required information. By 1876, this
> effort on statewide registration of vital records was abandoned. The few
> extant 1875 and 1876 vital records are available on microfilm at GDAH. The
> counties that participated in the 1874-1876 vital statistics collection
> were:
> County Birth Marriage Death
> Carroll 1875 1875 1875
> Chattooga 1875-76 1874-76 1874-76
> Clayton 1875 1875 --
> Colquitt 1875 1875 1875
> Early 1876 1876 --
> Jackson 1875 1875-76 1875
> Jefferson -- -- 1875
> Lincoln -- 1875 --
> Lumpkin 1875 1875-76 1875
> McIntosh -- 1875 1875
> Miller 1875-76 1875-76 1875-76
> Muscogee -- 1876 --
> Oglethorpe 1875-1878 -- --
> Pulaski 1875 -- --
> Richmond -- 1875-76 --
> Sumter 1875-76 1875-76 --
> Talbot -- -- 1875
> Taliaferro 1875-76 1875-76 --
>
>

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