{"id":299,"date":"2023-11-23T10:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T10:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/?p=299"},"modified":"2025-12-06T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T12:08:49","slug":"birth-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/birth-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Bedford County Birth Records are available in the Bedford County Clerk&#8217;s office for the years 1908-1912.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">The Tennessee State Library and Archives has microfilmed these records and provides very useful information on how to obtain birth records on their web site. Click&nbsp;here. And for an index of death records 1914-1919 click&nbsp;here.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Birth dates may also be obtained by searching Bible records, cemetery records, death records, and the&nbsp;<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/ssdi.rootsweb.com\/\">Social Security Death Index.<\/a>&nbsp;To be listed in this index, it would have been necessary for a person to have had a social security number. Generally speaking, they would have had to be of adult age in the 1930&#8217;s. Click&nbsp;here&nbsp;for more info and tips.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\">Birth records and a copy of the application a person filled out when applying for a social security number are also excellent ways of obtaining an official record of a person&#8217;s PARENTS.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>In addition, the following published resource is available. Check&nbsp;<\/b><b>library catalogs<\/b><b>&nbsp;for availability and interlibrary loan.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Marsh, Helen Crawford,&nbsp;<i>Newspaper vital records of Bedford County, Tennessee<\/i>, c 1984.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><center>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Bedford County Birth Records are available in the Bedford County Clerk&#8217;s office for the years 1908-1912. The Tennessee State Library and Archives has microfilmed these records and provides very useful information on how to obtain birth records on their web site. Click&nbsp;here. And for an index of death records 1914-1919 click&nbsp;here. Birth dates may also be obtained by searching Bible records, cemetery records, death records, and the&nbsp;Social Security Death Index.&nbsp;To be listed in this index, it would have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/birth-records\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/bedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}