New Hampshire, Births and Christenings Index, 1714-1904
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Title
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New Hampshire, Births and Christenings Index, 1714-1904
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New Hampshire Birth Records, early to 1900
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Index to births, early to 1900
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Creator
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New Hampshire Registrar of Vital Statistics
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Publisher
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Concord, NH
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Language
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English
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Temporal coverage
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1714-1904
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Description
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From Ancestry.com, "While the earliest vital records for New Hampshire were recorded by town clerks in the mid-1600s, legislation requiring the secretary of state to compile a statewide record of vitals was not passed until 1866. Compliance improved in the 1880s and was firmly established in 1905 with the creation of the Bureau of Vital records. At this time, the Bureau dispensed cards to town and city clerks and requested transcriptions of earlier vital records. Not every town complied with all pre-1905 records, so the Bureau’s statewide collection is not considered completely comprehensive.
Sources for this index include microfilmed copies of records from the Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics as well as town and county clerks, church records, and family records."
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Accessed online at Ancestry.com