WASHINGTON, Dec. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

BIRTH REGISTRATION

Profile America — Sunday, December 21st. This month in 1823, Georgia became the first state to enact a birth registration law. It required county clerks to record in a book the dates of birth of all new Georgians upon obtaining satisfactory proof by way of affidavit or sworn oaths. Enumerations of people go back to antiquity, but births were little noted outside of family and church records and the memory of neighbors. This informal method held true until Georgia's action in 1823, which by 1919 were mirrored in all states. However, not until the 1930's was a standard registration system adopted throughout the country. In the U.S. today, babies are born, and nearly universally certified, at a rate of about 8 per minute. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.

Sources: 
Kane's Famous First Facts, 2159
Recording births: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22301527
Births: http://www.census.gov/popclock/

Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). 

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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau