Alice,

As to  your first question, when I contacted the VA Dept. of Vital Records a 
few years ago, they indicated that they had no birth or death records for 
1896-1912.  If there were any exceptions to that "blanket statement," they 
certainly made no mention of them to me.

Bill 

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