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Subject: Re: [WAGRAYSH] Birth Certificate
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 03:21:30 -0000


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Author: RBestrom7380
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You deserve an explanation. Birth Certificates were not REQUIRED by the State until 1907. Certificates were not issued for most births at that time, but there could have been a notation made locally. I don't think Drivers Licenses were required until sometime in the 40's.

I found him in the World War I Draft Registration Card image database, which you may already have. It shows DOB as 9/23/1894; but I've found about half of the birth dates were off by one year.

Here is a website regarding the BC's:
http://www.doh.wa.gov/EHSPHL/CHS/cert.htm

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