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'''Until 1948, most vital records were copies of church records. Clergy were required to register the baptisms, marriages, and burials they performed with the civil authorities.''' The collection is not complete as many clergy and churches did not respond to the request of the Department of Public Health and Welfare to transcribe their records. The collection is predominately Protestant as only 6 of the 124 volumes are Roman Catholic. The remainder of the volumes are the records of the Church of England, Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian and Reformed Episcopal Churches. They are digitized and indexed in {{RecordSearch|1793777|Newfoundland, Vital Statistics, 1753-1893}} and [https://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=61507&cj=1&netid=cj&o_xid=0005737308&o_lid=0005737308&o_sch=Affiliate+External Newfoundland, Canada, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1757-1901.] | '''Until 1948, most vital records were copies of church records. Clergy were required to register the baptisms, marriages, and burials they performed with the civil authorities.''' The collection is not complete as many clergy and churches did not respond to the request of the Department of Public Health and Welfare to transcribe their records. The collection is predominately Protestant as only 6 of the 124 volumes are Roman Catholic. The remainder of the volumes are the records of the Church of England, Congregational, Methodist, Presbyterian and Reformed Episcopal Churches. They are digitized and indexed in {{RecordSearch|1793777|Newfoundland, Vital Statistics, 1753-1893}} and [https://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=61507&cj=1&netid=cj&o_xid=0005737308&o_lid=0005737308&o_sch=Affiliate+External Newfoundland, Canada, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1757-1901.] | ||
By 1948, official death certificates were being prepared by physicians and other medical personnel for the civil authorities.<ref>Murphy, Sharon L. "Newfoundland and Labrador Birth, Marriage, and Death Records | By 1948, official death certificates were being prepared by physicians and other medical personnel for the civil authorities.<ref>Murphy, Sharon L. "Newfoundland and Labrador Birth, Marriage, and Death Records - International Institute, " ''International Institute of Genealogical Studies'' (2012), https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Newfoundland_and_Labrador_Birth,_Marriage,_and_Death_Records_%28National_Institute%29.</ref> | ||
==Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador== | ==Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador== | ||
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