Re: Birth Records of "Stillborn" Children
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In reply to:
Birth Records of "Stillborn" Children
Kevin Wood 2/28/10
From my dealings with researching stillborn children they are listed under births but given a different code on the registration index - live births are code 11 and stillborns are code 21 (the code appears in the column just after the sex)BUT they most often are not named, so on the birth registration just written as infant plus the surname and a sex and date.
The only time I have seen a death registration for a stillborn was when the cause of death was listed as "premature birth" again the parents are listed but no name was listed for the child just a date and sex. If the child lived part of a day at delivery they technically are not stillborn but in that instance there will be a death registration completed usually.- Mary