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The Anatomy of BMD: What You Don’t Know About Vital Records

Gena Philibert-Ortega
May 24, 2019
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Introduction
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What Do You Know?
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What to Look For
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Births
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Deaths
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Marriages
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Finding Vital Records
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What are Alternatives?
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About this webinar

Everyone knows about vital records, right? It’s one of the  first record sets you look for in the hunt for your ancestors. But do you know everything about those records you seek? What do you do when no records exist? This  presentation looks at the history of vital records in the United States, discusses analysis of those records, and vital record alternatives.

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Gena Philibert-Ortega
Gena Philibert-Ortega is an author, researcher, and instructor whose focus is genealogy, social and women’s history. She holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies (Psychology and Women’s Studies) and a Master’s degree in Rel
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