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Author: clementsll
Surnames: Ballard
Classification: queries
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I have looked at
Ancestry.com and on
Newspaperarchive.com and neither has the birth
listed. HOWEVER, it is also likely that neither has indexed the most likely sources. For
example,
Newspaperarchive.com has only the Reno newspapers, not the Territorial
Enterprise, which is the likely location for the birth notice if he was born in Storey
County, for example.
I suggest you contact the Nevada Historical Society library in Reno -- they are wonderful
about doing lookups. The information at the website of the Nevada State Library and
Archives at
http://dmla.clan.lib.nv.us/docs/NSLA/archives/birth.htm tells you how to
contact them, as well as giving other resources. Actual birth records from 1887 to 1911
are available only from the county where the person was born. (That's not too bad --
unlike some other states we only have 17 counties in Nevada.) Do you know where he was
born? I'd guess that in 1899 the most likely counties of birth would be Storey, Lyon,
Carson City (then Ormsby County), Washoe (Reno area), or Clark (Las Vegas area). By 1902
there are a few more possibilities, such as Nye (Tonopah).
Linda Clements
Historical Society of Dayton Valley
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