U. S. Vital Records Catalog

Ancestry, Incorporated compiled the "U.S. Vital Records Catalog" to assist professional and amateur genealogists with their research problems. Thousands of people annually request record searches by writing to state, county, and town record keepers only to be informed that the records being sought were not on file. Quite often the records were on file, but the clerk who is unskilled and uninterested in genealogical research did not go the extra mile. Variant spellings were not checked and only a single year was searched when an exact date was unknown. Ancestry's staff of trained, professional record searchers will go beyond the limits or shortcomings of vital records clerks. When your search request is returned, you are assured that every possible entry was examined for a five-year period. The catalog is arranged alphabetically by state, county and town within each state, and order forms are included at the back.