Information on stillborn child
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How can I get information on stillborn child with just year born, name and parents names.
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@Foozy2 Click on Family Tree; a drop down menu will appear; select Find and enter the child's name, year and place born. You may get a thousand possibilities so the More Options might help. Personally, I use my Ancestry account (free with LDS church membership) to assist me when using Family Search because I have trouble keeping up with all the FS changes. 😉 However, the FS Moderators are great at directing these questions so I'm tagging @Wayland K Adams
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@Foozy2 What you can find depends greatly on where and when. If you are researching in the USA, many states did not require vital record registration before the 20th century. Some major cities, or even towns, have good records from the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
If you can share more details, we can better advise.
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@Foozy2 - not only does it depend on whether vital registration was required or not, it also depends on (a) what you mean by "stillborn" and (b) what the registration authority required in those particular circumstances.
For instance, England & Wales had mandatory registration of births from mid-1837 onwards. They used a definition of "stillborn" to mean that the child never took a single breath. Such stillborn children were not registered in England & Wales until 1927.
Other administrations used different definitions of stillbirths.
That's the sort of complexity we need to unravel, so date and place is vital to answer your question - we're not just being awkward.
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My favorite is that stillborn means born still or born quietly :)
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