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Jade,
When I used to spend 8-10 hours a day researching family
I, too, had trouble finding old VRs and after following every possible lead, I did find some.
Massachusetts did not begin recording VRs until 1841. I found two: 1639 and 1642 in Concord, MA. These births were recorded in an old county record book, but I could not find one for my father who was born 1903 in Illinois!!! I used
his Social Security Application for proof of birthday, place of birth and names of parents, which I already knew but needed some type of official source for a lineage society.
In another case, I could not determine which wife was mother of my ancestor because of conflicting printed genealogies from PROS! I ran across the will of the father of the second wife, which mentioned names of all the children and their ages, so I was able to determine that she was not mother of any of my ancestor's children.
The pros had her birth date 1676 as her marriage date the same year as my ancestor's birth; you can understand my dilemma. The will really saved me because I could not find death date for his mother, neither could any of the so-called pros.
I have found births in other old county record books from Connecticut and church records from Pennsylvania and family bibles.
Other good sources for VRs are pension and land records.
I am sure there are ways to determine birth, marriage and death dates, which others on this forum can provide.
Marilyn
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