Michigan Vital Records: Difference between revisions

*Information listed on vital arecords is given by an informant. Learn the relationsip of the informant to the subjdect(s) of the record. The closer the relationship of the informant to the subject(s) and whether or not the informant was present at the time of the event can help determine the accuracy of the information found on the record.  

*If you are unable to locate a vital records recorded by governments, search for church records of christening, marriage, death or burial. A family Bible may have been used to record births, marriages and deaths.  

*Records of African Americans may be recorded in separtate files with separate indexes.  

*Privacy laws may restrict your access to some vital records. Copies of some vital records recorded in the last 100 years may be unavailable to anyone except a direct relative.