Bureau of Vital Records
Registration/Certification
29 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301
(800) 852-3345 Ext 4651
or in NH - (603) 271-4651
Fax: (603) 271-3447 | |  |
Until 1883 less than half of the population was recorded in the vital records. Moreover, these records often gave very little information about parents and their birthplaces. After 1901 the records are very complete and give much more genealogical information.
Make check or money order payable to Treasurer, State of New Hampshire. One may visit the bureau and do research in person. They have a room, staffed by volunteers, where one may use the actual records. This is handy for people doing descendant genealogy because they may ask for all the records for one surname. The hours are from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm Monday through Friday (except Wed which closes at 3:30pm).
In New England, the town clerk is the principal record keeper on the local level. The earliest records are called proprietor's records. Town records generally begin with the founding of a town and are kept to the present. Town records may contain records of births, marriages, burials, cemeteries, appointments, earmarks, estrays (records of stray animals), freemens' oaths (men becoming eligible to vote), land records, mortgages, name changes, care of the poor, school records, surveys, tax lists, town meeting minutes, voter registrations, and "warning outs" (of town). The original records are in the respective town clerk's office or the New Hampshire Historical Society.
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