USA Free BMD?

[Romilly]

Hi Romilly
You could try www.411.com  if you think they may still be alive.
Karen

Thanks for the Link Karen,

I'll try for my cousin's widow, - but I'm sure that his daughter's will have changed their names by marriage:-(

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[Romilly]

Hi Romilly: I'll send you a PM on other possible courses of action.
John 

Many Thanks John, - I look forward to hearing from you.

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[JDC]

HI Romilly,

There are state and local genealogy groups in the USA that you could google to find and then contact. The couple of gengealogy club/groups that I have contacted have been very good to me. One of the volunteers with the club in Michigan actually called everyone in their local phone book with my ancestor's last name till she finally located a distant cousin of mine. Ironically, the volunteer worked with my cousin's mom many years prior to that. Funny how things connect :-) I eventually met my distant cousin and we had a gr8 time discussing our common ancestors.Anyway, might pay if you contact the genealogy people in the area you are looking and ask for some help.

The 2 RAOGK (randoim acts of genealogical kindness) volunteers I have worked with here and abroad have been very helpful as well to help with my knocking down of a brick wall or 2.

Hope that helps,

JDC

[Romilly]

HI Romilly,
There are state and local genealogy groups in the USA that you could google to find and then contact. The couple of gengealogy club/groups that I have contacted have been very good to me. One of the volunteers with the club in Michigan actually called everyone in their local phone book with my ancestor's last name till she finally located a distant cousin of mine. Ironically, the volunteer worked with my cousin's mom many years prior to that. Funny how things connect :-) I eventually met my distant cousin and we had a gr8 time discussing our common ancestors.Anyway, might pay if you contact the genealogy people in the area you are looking and ask for some help.
The 2 RAOGK (randoim acts of genealogical kindness) volunteers I have worked with here and abroad have been very helpful as well to help with my knocking down of a brick wall or 2.
Hope that helps,
JDC

Hi JDC,

Thanks for all of the ideas.

I have had amazing help with this so far, - both on & off here, & I'm hoping to make more progress asap.

Thats great that you managed to meet up with your cousin eventually, - fingers crossed that will happen with mine too at some stage!

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[akoenen2]

Hi,
I realize I'm a bit late in replying, but if you need anything looked up in the USA please message me. I volunteer at the Iowa Genealogical Society in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa is a neighboring state to Wisconsin, I think we may have some records from there. If not I can do an online search for you so you wouldn't have to pay.
Let me know!
--Alex K

[Romilly]

Hi,
I realize I'm a bit late in replying, but if you need anything looked up in the USA please message me. I volunteer at the Iowa Genealogical Society in Des Moines, Iowa. Iowa is a neighboring state to Wisconsin, I think we may have some records from there. If not I can do an online search for you so you wouldn't have to pay.
Let me know!
--Alex K

Hi Alex K,

Many Thanks for your kind offer, - much appreciated.

With much help from on here, I did succeed in tracking down some Rees/Phillips/Perlick descendants in the US. I wrote to what I believed to be a current address, (back in Oct 2009). However, despite including all of my contact details, (including Mobile no and home and email addresses)...I have never recieved a reply.

I can only conclude that I was either mistaken in the address/the family that I was looking at/or that they had no interest in the family photos that I was offering to share.

It was very disappointing.

Best Wishes, Romilly.

[danuslave]

Thanks for the link to www.411.com  I wasn't aware of that site   

Linda

[JDC]

Hi,

I am interested to find out the answer to something related to Romilly's orginal question: where are BMDs or vital statistics held in the states in the USA? And, what is the process of getting them, I have quite a few American ancestors I am tracking - mostly pre-1900.

JDC

[*Sandra*]

The United States does not have a Central Registry or BMD Index, what is available varies State to State and County to County. https://www.familysearch.org/ has some census and other records which are available and is a good place to start.

Sandra