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Excerpt from Alphabetical Index of the Births, Marriages and Deaths, Recorded in Providence, Vol. 9: Births, From 1871 to 1880 Inclusive Tiie present volume is number nine of the Alphabetical Index of the Births Marriages, and Deaths recorded in the City of Providence, and is the fifth of a set of six volumes to contain an index of the births, marriages, and deaths recorded in this city for the years 1871 to 1890, inclusive. The present volume is the first of two volumes containing an index of the births for the years 1871 to 1890. It is printed from a card index made in 1890 and 1891, but to which many names have since been added. The record of births in Providence is, as in all the cities of the United States, far from complete, and it also contains very many errors. Previous to 1895 the statutes provided for obtaining returns of births solely by a house to house enumeration, which was in Providence made semi-annually. Even in a small town this is not a satisfactory method, and as this city increased in size the number of births that escaped record also increased. During the twenty years covered by these two volumes, it is probable that not more than sixty or seventy per cent of the births were recorded. Since 1890 the record has been much more nearly complete. The records which are indexed by the present volume contain not only the names of living children born in Provi dence, but of the children of residents who happened to be born outside of the city, and also the returns of still-births. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.