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|title=Grenada | |title=Grenada Births and Baptisms, 1866-1891 | ||
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It was created to ensure a complete Register of Births, Deaths, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials of all the people on the Island. It became the responsibility of the Registrar-General and District Registrars for the parishes, to once every year, make a duplicate and general abstract from the Register books, of the number of births, deaths, baptisms, marriages, and burials registered during the year preceding and the Registrar-General would also, make and keep tabular alphabetical indexes from the schedules. | It was created to ensure a complete Register of Births, Deaths, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials of all the people on the Island. It became the responsibility of the Registrar-General and District Registrars for the parishes, to once every year, make a duplicate and general abstract from the Register books, of the number of births, deaths, baptisms, marriages, and burials registered during the year preceding and the Registrar-General would also, make and keep tabular alphabetical indexes from the schedules. | ||
It is also the Registrar-General role, at the public expense, to ensure a sufficient number of register-books, duplicates, necessary for each rector and curate of the district and ensure that they should be of durable materials. | It is also the Registrar-General role, at the public expense, to ensure a sufficient number of register-books, duplicates, necessary for each rector and curate of the district and ensure that they should be of durable materials. | ||
The rector or curate of every parish, and every other | The rector or curate of every parish, and every other recognized minister of religion on the Island, shall make out and deliver to the Registrar-General a true return in duplicate certified by him of the number of baptisms, marriages, and burials in the register-book kept by him. Further any person who willfully destroyed or caused to be destroyed any register-book would be guilty of felony. | ||
Finally it is the the Registrar-General and District Registrars | Finally it is the the Registrar-General and District Registrars' responsibility to allow searches to be made of any register, book, or certified returns in their respective keeping, and to give certified copies of any entry or entries in the same. | ||
or certified returns in their respective keeping, and to give | |||
certified copies of any entry or entries in the same. | |||
== What is in the Collection? == | == What is in the Collection? == | ||
There are currently | There are currently few baptism and birth entries included in this index. | ||
== Collection Contents == | == Collection Contents == | ||
== How Do I Search the Collection? == | |||
=== Search the Index === | |||
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''' | '''When searching:'''<br> As you are searching it is helpful to know such information as your ancestor’s given name and surname, some identifying information such as residence and age, and family relationships. Remember that there may be more than one person in the records with the same name as your ancestor and that your ancestor may have used nicknames or different names at different times. | ||
{{Tip|Images are available in the FamilySearch Catalog at [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/393177 Civil registration, 1866-1940] | |||
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/393177?availability=Family%20History%20Library | |||
== What Do I Do Next? == | == What Do I Do Next? == | ||