Source Information
Ancestry.com. Kentucky Birth Index, 1911-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.Original data: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death Databases: Births 1911-1999. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives.
About Kentucky Birth Index, 1911-1999
This database is an index to over 5.9 million births recorded in Kentucky between 1911 and 1999. Information contained in this index includes the following:
- Child’s name
- Child’s gender
- Birth date
- Birth county
- Mother’s name
- Registered date
- Volume year
- Volume number
- Birth certificate number
Note: not all entries will contain all of this information.
With the information provided in this index, you may be able to obtain a copy of a birth certificate. If possible, it is important that you do this because oft times more information is provided in an original record than is provided in its index. For information on how to order a copy of a birth certificate, visit the The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997).
