Free Online Alabama Birth Records and Indexes

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, a great number of 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, baptism, and christening indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state.

Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.

Note: I have included links to Free Ancestry records and indexes. You do not need a subscription but do need an Ancestry account. Without a subscription, you can view indexes. If there is an image associated with a record, in most cases you will need a subscription, but the index does include very usable information.

(Updated March 2023)

Alabama Birth Records

• ​Alabama Births and Christenings, 1881-1930
• ​Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
• Alabama, County Birth Registers, 1881-1930
• Alabama, Index to Birth and Death Certificates, 1917-1919
• Autauga County Birth and Death Records, 1871-1916
• Baldwin County Births and Deaths, 1886-1919; Marriages, 1810-1935, 1810-1935
• Baldwin County, Birth Indexes
• Bibb County Birth Records
• Bibb County, Birth Indexes
• Bibb County, Register of Births and Deaths, 1900-1919
• Blount County Miscellaneous Birth and Death Records, 1905-1912
• Blount County Vital Records
• Blount County, Birth Indexes
• Bullock County Birth and Death Records, 1909-1919
• Bullock County Births, 1920-1933
• Bullock County, Birth Indexes
• Butler County, Births and Deaths, 1870-1930
• Calhoun County, Birth Indexes
• Chilton County Register of Births and Deaths, 1908-1919
• Choctaw County Birth and Death Index
• Choctaw County Birth Register, 1881-1893
• Choctaw County Register of Births and Deaths, 1916-1919; Birth Decrees, 1943-1950
• Clarke County Register of Births and Deaths, 1914-1919
• Cleburne County Register of Births and Deaths, 1911-1921
• Coffee County Births, 1904-1919; Deaths, 1908-1927
• Conecuh County Births and Deaths, 1878-1954
• Conecuh County Delayed Birth Records, 1866-1950
• Coosa County Early Records 1832-1860
• Cullman County Deaths, 1886-1919; Register of Births, 1894-1904; Births and Deaths, 1911-1912, 1886-1919
• Cullman County Delayed Birth Certificates, 1871-1956
• Dallas County Birth Records, 1880-1930
• Elmore County Register of Births and Deaths, 1909-1913
• Escambia County, Birth Indexes
• Fayette County Births, 1884-1941; Deaths, 1899-1941
• Geneva County Register of Births and Deaths, 1912-1918
• Hale County, Births, 1881-1935; Deaths, 1918-1930
• Jackson County Alabama Records
• Jackson County Birth and Death Records, 1892-1896
• Jackson County Births, 1920-1934; Births and Deaths, 1914-1917
• Lamar County Vital Records
• Lauderdale County, Birth Indexes
• Lowndes County Births and Deaths, 1879-1935
• Mobile County Record of Births, v. 1-20, 1920-1935
• Morgan County Births
• Perry County Birth Records, 1908-1930
• Pike County Births, 1881-1937; Deaths, 1881-1929
• Randolph County, Births and Deaths, 1886-1945
• Russell County Delayed Birth Certificates, 1943-1962
• Shelby County Birth and Death Indexes
• Shelby County Register of Births and Deaths, 1902-1929
• St. Clair County Births, 1893-1906
• St. Clair County Register of Births and Deaths 1908-1916
• St. Clair County Vital Records
• St. Clair County, Birth Indexes
• Sumter County Births, 1909-1919; Deaths, 1909-1919
• Tallapoosa County Deaths, 1923-1938; Index to Deaths, 1925-1938; Births, 1927-1938; Index to Births, 1920-1938; Register of Births and Deaths, 1908-1919
• Tallapoosa County General Indexes to Records
• Tallapoosa County Register of Births, 1881-1907; Indexes to Births, 1881-1920
• Tallapoosa County, Birth Indexes
• Tallapoosa County, Birth Indexes
• United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931
• Walker County Births
• Washington County Births, 1920-1941; Deaths, 1920-1941; Delayed Births, 1944-1964
• Wilcox County Register of Deaths, 1905-1915; Register of Births, 1905-1908
• Winston County Births, Marriages, and Deaths