Newspapers are a good source for birth records – family details

By Thomas Jay Kemp on August 26, 2008

The Duluth News Tribune (13 Jan 1918) reported that more than half of the births registered for Duluth were simply listed as “male” or “female” child. This can be a problem for genealogists today but it was also a problem for one Minnesotan in 1918 who was trying to establish he was the legal... (Read More)