Birth records?

Question

i'm learning more and more about my family history, but i am trying to find out about my grandmother's parents and i need some kind of birth record or marriage record that is free online

Answer 1

If you go free the data is probably going to be inaccurate. However, if you want to spend like 19 dollars I can point you in the direction of a site that can give you every single you record you need so you don't have to go searching countless sites.. http://www.v1g.org - hope this helps

Answer 2

U. S. answerer.                                                       Your grandmother's death certificate should also have the names of both parents, including mother's maiden name and where they were born.  Each state in the U.S. has its own laws about who, when and where you can obtain vital records on another.  

If your grandmother is deceased, and you ask your question again giving her name including maiden name and where you feel she was born, someone on this board might be able to assist you.  

See, your grandmother might not have had a birth certificiate at the time she was born.  In some U.S. states, vital records were not being recorded until the first part of the 20th century.  Still once they were being recorded, for some time afterwards, a lot of people who were born at home or died at home did not get recorded.

Answer 3

Usually you need to go to the town/city where your great-grandparents were born and or married. For a birth certificate, the person has to be dead in order for you to obtain it, I believe that is the only stipulation. I just received my Great Grandfather's birth certificate, he died 2 years ago and was born in 1912. As for a marriage certificate, you need to find the church that they were married in, if they weren't married in a church, you need to locate the town/city that they were married in, there should be some sort of record there. Sometimes churches can be picky about who gets to see the records, a specific example is the Catholic Churches. There aren't really any free sites that let you access these records unless someone retrieved the record previously and uploaded it to the web. A copy at the local town office usually will run you a couple dollars they may even let you have a copy for free. If not, you can always just look at the information and copy it down.

Answer 4

It depends on where and what year.  In some States, birth records are not available on-line for births that occured in the last 100 years.  If you are looking only for the date of birth, you might be better off checking the Social Security Death Index which is free.  Here is the link:

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bi...

If you don''t find what you are looking for there, in order to provide you with the appropriate link, edit your question with the location and approximate year of birth/marriage.  If your Grandmother was born before 1930, you could also provide her full name (maiden name) and someone with a subscription to ancestry.com will search the census records which usually gives parents/siblings names and their year/place of birth.