Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: XEHRpa

People in my family had to bring in the family bible and letters of testimony to have BCs issued in the fifties and sixties. Born at home, no docs, no papers. Not uncommon in rural America.


14 posted on 01/27/2018 10:33:20 AM PST by Billyv ( Freedom isn't Free! Get off the sidelines!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies ]


To: Billyv

Both my parents and all fourteen of my aunts and uncles were born at home, no doctor.

They never got birth certificates until they needed them as adults.
They would take the family bible, where all births and deaths were recorded, and that was enough to get a BC.

It was a different world then.


19 posted on 01/27/2018 11:39:27 AM PST by oldvirginian (Its for the children and kick the can down the road. Two phrases that make my trigger finger twitch.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson