Re: Lifeless births


"Don Moody" <dpmoody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Richard van Schaik" <f.m.a.vanschaikREMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Hi,

During searching and adding for dutch records (including lifeless births)
I wondered why those births are so hidden in ..... England / Britain (do
not know the limits in this case, never searched beyond lets say the
FreeBMD area plus some Channel Island records). Every record is so in the
open compared to other countries, but these lifeless births are almost
impossible to get. Why?


In English they are called stillbirths, and that topic was gone over very
thoroughly in sgb years ago. See the archives.

There are several major problems, and a lot of emotional angst, religious
ponitification, and legal implications around the subject.

I'll say no more than that my wife was pregnant 8 times and we have 5
living children..

In any case, genealogically stillbirths do not, by definition, contribute
any descendants to the family tree so what is the urge to find them?

Don


:: In any case, genealogically stillbirths do not, by definition,
:: contribute any descendants to the family tree so what is the urge to
::: find them?

From a purely genealogical POV they probably don't contribute Don, but then
from a 'Family History' POV they certainly do. Although I have no person
experience here, my ancestors (some quite recent) certainly have. I couldn't
hope to understand their history if it didn't include such important, albeit
traumatic, events

Tony Proctor


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