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From: "Diana Boothe" <>
Subject: [AR-SURNAMES] Fw: 1931 article (Tuckerman Record)
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 14:01:38 -0500

Thanks, Mark!!! <g>

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From: "Mark Williamson" <>
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Subject: Re: 1931 article (Tuckerman Record)


Sure, you can reprint.

Mark



Here's an 1931 article from a Jackson County newspaper that I ran across.
The last paragraph is especially appropriate, although I don't think
genealogists were the ones Mr. Parrott had in mind...

[From the Tuckerman Record, Tuckerman, AR, Friday, 3 Jul 1931, p. 1,
col. 2.:]

[title] "Births and Deaths Should Be Reported."

"J. L. Parrott, Local Registrar for births and deaths [for Bird
Township], is in receit [sic] of a letter from the Arkansas State Board of
Health [calling] attestion to the fact that birth and death certificates are
far short of what they should be and urging that all not reported be sent
[in] within the next ten days or two weeks.
Many births are not reported when no licensed physician is in
attendance and it is the duty of some one present to report the birth to the
Registrar in order that it may be recorded by the Board of Health. Failure
to report births for record may result in much trouble and inconvenin [sic]
after life of the child when a certificate might be required for various
reasons.
Numerous deaths are not recorded when an undertaker is not employed and
no one takes the trouble to report the death to the Registrar.
If you know of a birth or death which has not been reported, you may be
doing some one a great favor in the future if you will report it."

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