Source Information

Ancestry.com. Kentucky, U.S., Birth Records, 1847-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Original data: Kentucky. Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910). Microfilm rolls #994027-994058. Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, Frankfort, Kentucky.

About Kentucky, U.S., Birth Records, 1847-1911

Birth records begin in Kentucky as early as 1852 when statewide registration was first enacted. The requirement continued only for ten years. Some births were recorded (1874-79, 1892-1910), but observance remained sporadic.

Birth registration was enacted statewide again on 1 January 1911 and was generally adhered to by 1920.

This database contains county birth records from Kentucky for the years 1852-1910. For a complete list of counties and years available, see below.

Information available in this database includes:

  • Name of child

  • Gender

  • Color or race

  • Birth date

  • Birthplace (county and/or town)

  • Parents’ names

  • Parents’ birthplaces

  • Parents’ ages

Additional information may be available on the actual record.

Years and Counties Covered:

  • Adair: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Allen: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1875, 1878-1879, 1899-1901, 1903-1904, 1908-1910

  • Anderson: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Ballard: 1852-1853, 1856-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894

  • Barren: 1852-1859, 1861, 1878-1879

  • Bath: 1852-1859, 1875-1876, 1878, 1901

  • Bell: 1874-1878

  • Boone: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1878

  • Bourbon: 1852-1859, 1874, 1876, 1878-1879

  • Boyd: 1859, 1875-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1909

  • Boyle: 1852-1859, 1875-1876, 1878, 1904

  • Bracken: 1852, 1854-1859, 1861, 1875-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1904

  • Breathitt: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1909-1910

  • Breckinridge: 1852-1861, 1874-1878, 1893-1894, 1903-1904

  • Bullitt: 1852-1859, 1874, 1878-1879, 1893-1894, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Butler: 1852-1859, 1874-1879, 1902-1904, 1906-1910

  • Caldwell: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1875, 1878

  • Calloway: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1902-1904, 1906-1910

  • Campbell: 1852-1859, 1861-1862, 1878-1879, 1906-1907

  • Carlisle: 1893-1894, 1901, 1904, 1907, 1910

  • Carroll: 1852-1859, 1875-1876, 1878

  • Carter: 1852-1859, 1861-1862, 1875-1878, 1900-1901, 1904, 1906-1907

  • Casey: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1902-1904, 1906-1909

  • Christian: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1902-1904

  • Clark: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1904

  • Clay: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1904, 1906-1910

  • Clinton: 1852-1859, 1878, 1903, 1908-1909

  • Crittenden: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1900-1901, 1903-1904, 1907-1909

  • Cumberland: 1852-1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Daviess: 1853-1857, 1859, 1861, 1874

  • Edmonson: 1852-1859, 1874-1879, 1893

  • Elliott: 1874-1876, 1878, 1909-1910

  • Estill: 1852-1861, 1874, 1878, 1910

  • Fayette: 1852-1859, 1861

  • Fleming: 1852-1853, 1855-1859, 1874-1876, 1878-1879

  • Floyd: 1852, 1854-1859, 1874-1878, 1894, 1900-1901, 1903-1904, 1907-1910

  • Franklin: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903

  • Fulton: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1902-1904, 1908-1909

  • Gallatin: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874, 1876-1878

  • Garrard: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Grant: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1904, 1907, 1910

  • Graves: 1852-1853, 1855-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1909

  • Grayson: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1900-1904, 1906-1907

  • Green: 1852-1853, 1855-1859, 1861-1862, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1904, 1906

  • Greenup: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Hancock: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1893-1894, 1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Hardin: 1852-1859, 1874-1875

  • Harlan: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904

  • Harrison: 1852-1859, 1876, 1878

  • Hart: 1852-1859, 1861, 1872-1876, 1892-1893, 1903-1904, 1907

  • Henderson: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1907

  • Henry: 1852-1859, 1874-1876

  • Hickman: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1900-1901, 1904, 1907-1910

  • Hopkins: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1878, 1893-1894, 1907-1908, 1910

  • Jackson: 1858-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1900-1901, 1904, 1909-1910

  • Jefferson: 1852, 1854-1859, 1900-1906, 1908-1909

  • Jessamine: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1898, 1904, 1907, 1909-1910

  • Johnson: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1902-1904, 1910

  • Kenton: 1852-1859, 1874-1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Knott: 1902-1903, 1907-1910

  • Knox: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1903-1904, 1906-1907

  • Larue: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1903-1904, 1906-1907

  • Laurel: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1878, 1903

  • Lawrence: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1908

  • Lee: 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1902-1904

  • Leslie: 1878, 1900-1901, 1903-1904

  • Letcher: 1852-1857, 1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1906-1910

  • Lewis: 1852-1856, 1858-1859, 1861, 1875-1876, 1878

  • Lincoln: 1852-1859, 1875-1876, 1878, 1904-1906

  • Livingston: 1852-1859, 1861, 1875-1876, 1878, 1903, 1907, 1909-1910

  • Logan: 1852-1853, 1855-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Lyon: 1853-1859, 1861-1862, 1874-1878, 1903, 1908, 1910

  • Madison: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1902-1904, 1907

  • Magoffin: 1859, 1861-1862, 1874-1875, 1907

  • Marion: 1852-1858, 1874-1876, 1893-1894, 1903-1904

  • Marshall: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1903-1904, 1909-1910

  • Martin: 1874-1876, 1878, 1900-1901, 1905-1906, 1909-1910

  • Mason: 1852-1853, 1855-1859, 1861, 1874, 1903-1904, 1907-1908

  • McCracken: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1909-1910

  • McCreary: no birth records available

  • McLean: 1854-1859, 1861, 1876, 1900-1901, 1904

  • Meade: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1878, 1894, 1900-1901, 1904, 1906-1909

  • Menifee: 1874-1876, 1878

  • Mercer: 1874

  • Metcalfe: 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Monroe: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1906-1910

  • Montgomery: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Morgan: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1900-1901, 1904-1906, 1909-1910

  • Muhlenberg: 1852-1855, 1857-1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1907, 1909-1910

  • Nelson: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1907

  • Nicholas: 1852-1859, 1876, 1878

  • Ohio: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1910

  • Oldham: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878-1879

  • Owen: 1852-1859, 1874-1875

  • Owsley: 1852-1859, 1874, 1876-1879, 1903-1904, 1907-1910

  • Pendleton: 1852-1859, 1873-1879

  • Perry: 1852-1859

  • Pike: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1902-1904, 1906-1910

  • Powell: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874, 1878

  • Pulaski: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Robertson: 1874-1876, 1878, 1909

  • Rockcastle: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Rowan: 1856-1859, 1861-1862, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1893, 1909

  • Russell: 1852-1859, 1874-1875, 1878, 1903-1906, 1909-1910

  • Scott: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878-1879

  • Shelby: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1878

  • Simpson: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1903-1904, 1906-1907

  • Spencer: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894

  • Taylor: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1893-1894, 1901, 1903-1904, 1909

  • Todd: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878-1879, 1903-1904, 1906-1907

  • Trigg: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1875, 1878-1879, 1903-1904, 1906-1910

  • Trimble: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894

  • Union: 1852-1859, 1874-1875, 1877-1878

  • Warren: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1902-1904, 1906-1910

  • Washington: 1852-1859, 1874-1876, 1878

  • Wayne: 1852-1858, 1874, 1878

  • Webster: 1874-1876, 1907, 1910

  • Whitley: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1893-1894, 1900-1904, 1908-1910

  • Wolfe: 1861, 1874-1876, 1878, 1902-1904, 1907-1909

  • Woodford: 1852-1859, 1861, 1874-1876, 1878