Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908

Title: Vermont, Vital Records, 1720-1908; Vermont Vital Records through 1870; Vermont Vital Records, 1871–1908
Creator: State of Vermont
Publisher: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
Place: Provo, UT
Date: 2013
Language: English
Temporal coverage: 1720-1908
Description: From Ancestry.com, "Like other New England states, in Vermont vital records were kept on the town level, and the date when formal record keeping began varied from place to place, with some records dating back to early Colonial days. A law requiring civil registration went on the books in 1779, but compliance was not universal.
In 1857, the state began requiring town clerks to create records of the previous year’s vital events and send them to the secretary of state. The state sent cards to cities and towns, where clerks filled them out with data extracted from their vital records and then sent them back. This database includes images of those cards through 1908.

For earlier years, availability may vary somewhat from town to town. There were also known gaps in early death records, and clerks were encouraged to fill these gaps with cemetery records. You’ll find these among the records with dates prior to 1870 in this database."; Accessed online at Ancestry.com
Related resource: https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/4661/

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