Don’t get too excited
yet. Official NH birth records were created by town or city clerks. In 1866,
New Hampshire passed a law requiring towns and cities to send copies of birth
records to the state. However, some towns and cities didn’t comply until the
1880s, so less than half of the population has birth records at the state
level. This online index is from the handwritten card index at the state level.
If you don't find what you're looking for, remember that New Hampshire towns
and cities have more births recorded than what's available on this statewide card
index.
The cards may include
child’s name, date and place of birth, name of parents and their place of
birth, occupation and ages of parents, name of attending physician or midwife,
gender, color or race, living or stillborn, and place recorded. With this
information, you will be able to order the original record from the birthplace
or state.
For example, the
FamilySearch index lists Martha (b. 1654), Ann (b. 1658), and Nathaniel (b.
1660), children of John Huggins (1609-1670) and his wife Bridget (d. 1695) of Hampton, NH. When you
click on the individual names, you can view the transcription and the card
image. These three cards were created in 1906, and list only child’s name,
parents’ names, birth date and place, clerk’s name (transcriber) and creation
date.
John and Bridget
Huggins, however, had nine known children. Besides the three listed above, two
more births and one baptism are listed in Vital Records of Hampton, New Hampshire to the End of the Year 1900, Volume 1, by George Freeman
Sanborn and Melinde Lutz Sanborn.
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