Tallapoosa County AlArchives Birth Records.....Notes About Vital Records at Dadeville
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Laura C. Edwards LEDWARDS6@nc.rr.com January 16, 2003, 4:29 pm

The courthouse in Dadeville has birth and death records going back to 1881 
(this pre-dates the state registration by nearly 30 years).  The records are not complete 
(I think there is a death volume missing c. 1900) and not all deaths or births were actually 
registered, but I have found records for several of my ancestors who did not get a state-issued 
death or birth certificate.  The amount of information in these records varies.  After 1908, the 
death records show all the same information as the state-issued certificates.  Even after 1908, 
many people registered the births of their children at the courthouse, but did not obtain 
state-issued birth certificates for them (my great-grandparents were among the offenders 
in this category).
 
Laura C. Edwards