Office of Vital Records and Statistics Delayed birth certificates index, 1941-

This is an index to the Delayed Birth Certificates registered with the bureau, they cover births not registered as soon after the child's birth as usual (cf. 1941 filing dates for 1878 births). The date span covers the dates of filing. The actual birth dates go as far back as 1862. The information includes name, birth place, sex, birth date, father's name, mother's name, and delayed file number. The creation of an index is part of the 1941 legislation responsible for organizing the procedure for registering births some time after the actual event. It was maintained until about either 1999 when many such procedures moved to central computer systems, or 2002 when the practice of assigning a delayed file number of was abandoned in favor of a modified form of the usual state file number on vital records.