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How do you find out where a stillborn baby is buried?
the date of the death or stillbirth. In many cases stillborn babies were buried in a shared grave with other babies. These graves are usually unmarked, though they do have a plot number and can be located on a cemetery plan. In other cases, babies were buried in shared graves with adults.
What causes a stillborn birth?
A stillbirth is the death of a baby in the womb after week 20 of the mother’s pregnancy. The reasons go unexplained for 1/3 of cases. The other 2/3 may be caused by problems with the placenta or umbilical cord, high blood pressure, infections, birth defects, or poor lifestyle choices.
What to do if a baby has died and the mother is still pregnant?
If the mother is still pregnant and the baby has died, the doctor will usually recommend an induction (starting labour with medical assistance).
How can I find out if my baby was stillborn?
You should then contact the General Office of the hospital in which the baby was stillborn or died, providing them with as much information as you can. They should then be able to explain about the form or burial or cremation, and the funeral directors who were used for said burial or cremation.
How to look for people in Death Records?
So how do we look for people when we don’t know their names, or when they are missing from the birth records’ One strategy is to use death records. Death records give us another opportunity to take a look for someone. When the records list the parents’ names, it opens up a new way to search for a person even if we don’t know that person’s name.
Where can I find the earliest birth records?
It is very common to find birth information in other sources. For example, New England town records may contain some of the earliest birth records, but mandatory birth record were not kept by all of the states until well into the 1900s. Some early records of births and christenings or baptism dates were kept in local church records.