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Vital Records: Marriage, Birth, & Death: Examples

Examples

See below for examples of vital records of various types, formats, and eras.  

Example Death Card, issued by the State of Minnesota 1900. See a PDF key for reading death cards from 1905-1907 here

Example Birth Card, issued by the State of Minnesota 1906

Example County-wide death register, Stearns County 1918

Example Town Birth Ledger, Wadena 1881

Example Birth Certificate, issued by the State of Minnesota 1916

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