Show 1 KEEPING WELL J I 1 S X BIRTH S 1 1 X ff registration i 2 OIL DIL FlIE r DERICK 11 X Y editor of HEALTH M S M C CAN AN born you prove that you were ever of course the natural assumption la is that you were or yon ton be here but could you produce legal proof it if necessary of the time and place of your birth parentage and nationality if I 1 you could you are better off than most americans birth registration in this country Is comparatively recent while both births and deaths hae been recorded for many years past in new england new york and a few other states the registration of births in most of our states Is a matter of the last twenty years in europe birth registration ba has been in force for many centuries in tills this country not only in the early days but until comparatively recently little attention has been paid to this subject As P result it Is only extremely but in many cases it Is impossible to trace tiny any lines ot of descent or to establish any genealogical tables much progress has been made since when what Is known as the he model bill for registration of births and deaths was drafted today every state in the union with the exception of arizona nevada and south dakota has adopted this law and has a uniform system of registering and recording births and deaths |