Tag: birth certificate

• December 15, 2015

  A Birth Certificate, A Research First in the Flowers Family History

  I have researched the Flowers family for the past three years and never found a birth certificate for any member of this family. Was I surprised?  It was not a required document to be recorded at a black child’s birth. For most African Americans born in the seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth century, birth…