Birth Listings by County
A county birth record includes a persons date of birth, father and mothers names and job along with religion and the nationality of both parents. The birth record can also include information on the child and how much he/she weighs and the child's height. These birth records can be lost, and they are not always that easy to retrieve, until the internet was born.
The county birth record was created when the child was born and was signed by the doctor who checked the information. The health department keeps a copy for their records and you are issued with one anywhere between the date of birth and 6 months after (which is why on some birth certificates you see a date of registration that is different than the date of birth). The copy the health department keeps is vital, as it means such public records searches in the future as the one you are looking to do, can be done. The birth records are needed continuously through life for adoption, marriage, divorce, death and many things such as opening a bank account may request a copy.
The reason you are looking for your county birth records may be because you simply lost your own and you need to perform a particular act with it, for example signing up for a service that needs your birth certificate. You may also be looking to do some family research and need someone else's birth certificate or vital records because not only will it prove they existed, but it may have information about parents on it which you can use for further research. Or you may just be curious to see if your or someone else's records are there.
Thanks to the internet, public record searches are extremely easy and quick. Before online public records databases you would have to go to the county offices or courthouses and go through hours of paperwork and you still might not find the record. You may need to go to a different place in a different county that may takes weeks and cost a lot of money. The web has simplified all this process and more often than not you can get hold of the birth records for your county for no money at all.
If you decide this is for you, and I expect you will considering you can take away the hard work and do it from your own home, then you need to do your research. Don't dive in and sign up to the first one you find without checking the competition. Make sure the site you're on offers all the benefits the others do, and make sure any information you give to them will not be sold or used in a way you don't want. The amount of times people have to get new email addresses because they signed up for countless things that spam them non-stop is extremely high.
Good luck with your search and I hope you find the county birth records you are looking for.