Birth certificates that list the names of the parents are the ideal documents to link the line carrier on a lineage application to his or her parents. The Society of Mayflower Descendants, like all other lineage societies wants birth certificates as far back as we can get them, with earlier birth records when they were kept at the local level.
The good news in Ohio is that you can walk into any Health Department office in the state and obtain a birth certificate for any one born in Ohio since December 1908.
The bad news is that by Ohio law, if you request that birth certificate in a county other than where the person was born, the staff are prohibited from listing the birth location as anything other than "Ohio" on the certificate. We actually want to see the city and county of birth in addition to the state, so this law makes the certificates less than ideal.
What to do? Send to the county where the person was born and request the certificate there, or send to the State Health Department. You can download the application at http://www.odh.ohio.gov/pdf/forms/hea2709.pdf. You can also include a hospital birth certificate or other document to prove the complete location of the birth.
Our process starts with a preliminary contact form, and if we don't have your lineage, a lineage review form. You can download both forms at www.ohiomayflower.org from the Membership page.
Welcome Mayflower Cousins
This blog is full of information for applications to the Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Ohio. Check back often to learn more about producing a successful application. Click the email link at the bottom to be notified of new posts as they happen.
Our contact information is:
Ann Gulbransen, Historian, historian@ohiomayflower.org
Lee Martin, Deputy Historian, deputyhistorian@ohiomayflower.org
Our contact information is:
Ann Gulbransen, Historian, historian@ohiomayflower.org
Lee Martin, Deputy Historian, deputyhistorian@ohiomayflower.org
Sunday, July 19, 2015
The Dating Game
Well, y’all – time to play the
dating game! Before everyone thinks the
poor old, dilapidated assistant historian lost his mental faculties, the dating
game is not what one would think. The
dating game does not involve relative dating in neither a geological sense (and
yes, I did say geological) nor a genealogical sense (with a subtle difference
between the two). I’m talking about
double dating. One could argue I may be
referring to double dates as a genealogical phenomenon when two sisters date
two brothers of a different family and may be related – ah, noooo, I’m not; at
least, not in this case.
The
double dating I’m referring deals with calendrical systems. For example 21 February 1721/22 is a double
date. Now why is there a slash between
21 and 22? It has to be one or the
other, but not both. Well, yes and
no. Yes, in the sense it must be in a
definitive temporal year, either 1721 or 1722; however, no because the two
calendrical systems I refer to are the Julian calendar and the Gregorian
calendar.
The
Julian calendar started by Julius Caesar in 46 BC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar: accessed 19 July
2015) divided the year into 12 months with fixed 365 days with one day added
every four years. As time passed errors
creeped in because of irregularity in earth orbit and lunar orbit throwing off
religious festivals. For example, Easter
in the Christian Tradition occurred in the March timeframe. As centuries passed the Easter date fell in
the middle of May – far from March. To
compensate, Pope Gregory XIII introduced reforms.
The
Gregorian calendar is similar to the Julian except century years, 1800, 1900
(centuries divided by 100) are not leap years unless divisible by 400 (2000 is
a leap year). With the reforms, the calendars
were brought into sync (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar: accessed 19 July
2015). The reforms instituted by Pope
Gregory took effect 15 October 1582; however, Great Britain didn’t adopt it
until 1750. The American colonies didn’t
adopt it until 1753.
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