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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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Birth records are prepared for all children born in Iceland, both Icelandic and foreign, and these are kept at the Statistical Bureau of Iceland.
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Birth data is obtained from the Department of Health and Vital Statistics at the state level as more accurate records are kept compared to municipal birth records.
Certified birth records are legal documents and obtained through the Massachusetts State Registry of Vital Statistics in Boston.
Study participants are identified off the vital records birth certificate file and sent a questionnaire two to six months after their delivery.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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There are also records of tamed elephants having mated with other tamed elephants and giving birth.
There are records of the birth of elephants in captivity in Sri Lanka but most of these are off females that had been captured after they had conceived in the wild.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Double records in Ireland and Scotland are not unusual as births and marriages were recorded where the even took place and also in their home parish.
Record of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales from 1836 onwards.
Civil records of births and deaths were originally recorded from 1864 to 1877 inclusive, while marriage records started in the late 1700's.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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His birth records were destroyed in a fire at his parish church during the Thirty Years War, a war in which he fought as a young soldier.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Baptismal records of the parish indicate it was not uncommon to have approximately one hundred births recorded annually.
Church records are a valuable source of information as they faithfully record births, marriages and deaths over centuries - just the sort of information people are looking for.
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