The Ancestor Hunt regularly adds and updates new collection links, as well as searches for and fixes broken links.
(This page's most recent update is December 2024)
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One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, baptism, and/or christening information about their ancestors.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians, and archivists, many indexes to birth and baptism collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific birth, baptism, or christening information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual birth documents themselves. These free online collections have millions of records in them in total.
There are a great number of online and offline collections that may include birth information that is not included in the lists below. These different types can be found in 32 Ways to Find Ancestor Birth Information
If you are interested in baptism indexes that may include the birth date as well as baptism information, make sure and check out Church Records.
The lists below are specific birth indexes and record collections available for free online for the states in the region.
- Free Online Alabama Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Arkansas Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Florida Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Georgia Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Kentucky Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Louisiana Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Mississippi Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Missouri Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online North Carolina Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Oklahoma Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online South Carolina Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Tennessee Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Texas Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Virginia Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online West Virginia Birth Records and Indexes
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!