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Re: Delayed Births



Russell, that's an easy question because I learned it
firsthand.   When I was in Illinois, I received volumes of
"delayed birth" records from some of the counties.  In
Illinois, at the beginning of World War II (1942), the federal
government required birth certificates from people
beginning to work on munitions companies and the like.
Many of these folks (too old for enlisting, too young to
retire) were born in the years when birth certificates were
not done or in rural areas far from the county seat.

My grandfather, born in 1912, had to get a delayed birth
certificate from southern Illinois in order to get work at
the Illiopolis Munitions factory.

That's why so many in 1942.   But of course genealogists
and county clerks assume the birth certificates are by year,
so if you ask for any from 1912, both groups will say they
don't exist...even though the 1942 registers may have
hundreds.

Dean

Dean DeBolt
University Librarian
Special Collections and West Florida Archives
John C. Pace Library
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
Tele:  850-474-2213;   Fax:  850-474-3338

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