Index or Certificate?

[*Sandra*]

A few pieces worth reading............

Records of births occurring in each New Hampshire town or city have been kept by town clerks since the early 1600s. Statewide registration began in 1866. Total compliance with the law was not accomplished until the 1880s, and even then the practice was not uniform. By this point, less than half of the population was listed in the birth records. Total compliance began in 1905 with the establishment of the Bureau of Vital Records.

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/How_to_Find_New_Hampshire_Birth_Records

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/How_to_Find_New_Hampshire_Birth_Records#Births_before_190

https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_Hampshire_Church_Records

Sandra

[EmmaPettit]

That is some great information and very handy links.

Thanks so much for that *Sandra*. I greatly appreciate the help.

[aghadowey]

I'm trying to get a birth certificate for a great grandfather.
I found on familysearch a few entries for him. Charles F Ellis b. 25 Oct 1828 Dover, New Hampshire, 2 without a picture and one with.
Are these just indexes or something else?
How do I go about getting a birth certificate. I'm not from America and it does not seem to be easy to get one.
Can someone lead me in the right direction?
Thank you for taking the time to read this.

I've never seen submitted LDS trees that include 'pictures' so I suspect that what you found are these records-
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FDJ8-YM9
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FLLP-S52

The 2nd one shows a camera symbol on the right side of the entry and when you click on the link it takes you to this page- which seems to be an extracted record from original town record of the birth- https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-63BS-M95
The original record iteself may not exist but if it does there's unlikely to be more detail than included here.