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 27 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 1: Many of the links listed below take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. In many cases there is a link to the digital collection in the middle of the page, but also 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. Please also note that I have listed below only databases that are accessible digitally from your computer (or tablet/phone)
Note 2: 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 December 2021; recently added links are in BOLD):
- Anderson County, Birth Indexes
- Anderson County, Births, 1873-1876, 1903-1940; Index, 1860-1990
- Andrews County Birth Indexes
- Andrews County Index to Deaths, 1886-1995; Index to Births, 1884-1995; Deaths, 1949-1969
- Andrews County, Birth Indexes
- Angelina County, Birth Indexes
- Aransas County Early Records
- Aransas County, Birth Indexes
- Archer County, Birth Indexes
- Archer County, Births and Deaths 1878-1986
- Armstrong County, Draft Registrations 1917-1918 (includes birth dates)
- Atascosa County, Birth Indexes
- Austin County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Austin County, Birth Indexes
- Bailey County, Birth Indexes
- Bandera County, Birth Indexes
- Bastrop County, Birth Indexes
- Baylor County, Birth Indexes
- Beaumont Parish Registers, 1905-1957
- Bee County, Birth Indexes
- Bell County, Birth Indexes
- Bell County, Index to Births, 1873-1989; Birth Records, 1872-1934 and Delayed Birth Records, 1870-1933
- Bexar County Births and Deaths
- Bexar County, Birth Indexes
- Blanco County, Birth Indexes
- Blanco County, Index to Births, 1903-1968 and Birth Records 1903-1928; Deaths, 1903-1968; Death Index, 1903-1992
- Blessing Parish Registers, 1929-1957
- Boeme Parish Registers, 1876-1957
- Borden County, Birth Indexes
- Bosque County, Birth Indexes
- Bosque County, Births, 1903-1914 and Index to Delayed Births 1855-1985
- Bowie County, Birth Indexes
- Brazoria County, Birth Indexes
- Brazos County Pioneers 1800-1850
- Brazos County, Birth Indexes
- Brewster County, Birth Indexes
- Briscoe County, Birth Indexes
- Brooks County, Birth Indexes
- Brooks County, Births, 1911-1945; Deaths, 1934-1962; and Indexes to Delayed Births
- Brown County, Birth Indexes
- Brownsville, Birth Records (1915-1929)
- Burleson County, Birth Indexes
- Burnet County, Birth Indexes
- Burnet County, Births Records, 1903-1922; Indexes 1870-1990
- Caldwell County, Birth Indexes
- Calhoun County, Birth Indexes
- Callahan County, Birth Indexes
- Cameron County, Birth Indexes
- Camp County, Birth Indexes
- Carson County, Birth Indexes
- Cass County, Birth Indexes
- Castro County, Birth Indexes
- Chambers County, Birth Indexes
- Cherokee County, Birth Indexes
- Cherokee County, General Index to Births, 1903-1987; Birth Records 1903-1934
- Childress County, Birth Indexes
- Clay County, Birth Indexes
- Cleburne, Births, ca. 1917-1928 and Deaths, 1884-1950
- Cochran County, Birth Indexes
- Coke County Birth Records and Delayed Birth Certificates, 1888-1930
- Coke County, Birth Indexes
- Coleman County, Birth Indexes
- Coleman County, Birth Records, 1849-1985
- Collin County Birth, Marriage, and Death Record Search
- Collin County, Birth Indexes
- Collin County, Birth Records, 1903-1925; Indexes 1903-1973, 1981
- Collin County, Birth Records, 1933-1939
- Collingsworth County, Birth Indexes
- Colorado County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Colorado County, Birth Indexes
- Colorado County, General Index to Births 1853-1994 and Births 1855-1935
- Comal County, Birth Indexes
- Comal County, Birth Records, 1903-1933
- Comanche County Records, 1858-1955
- Comanche County, Birth Indexes
- Concho County, Birth Indexes
- Cooke County, Birth Indexes
- Cooke County, Birth Records, 1873-1876
- Cooke County, Birth Records, ca. 1873-1876
- Coryell County, Birth Index, 1867-1954, Birth Register 1903-1936, Birth Certificates, 1928-1939
- Coryell County, Birth Indexes
- Cottle County, Birth Indexes
- Crane County, Birth Indexes
- Crockett County, Birth Indexes
- Crosby County, Birth Indexes
- Crosby County, Texas Birth Records, 1903-1937; Index to Marriages, 1886-1953; Marriages 1886-1953 and Deaths, 1840-1970
- Culberson County, Birth Indexes
- Dallam County, Birth Indexes
- Dallas County, Birth Indexes
- Dawson County, Birth Indexes
- De Witt County, Cuero, Birth Records, 1877-1936
- Deaf Smith County Vital Record Indexes
- Deaf Smith County, Birth Indexes
- Delta County, Birth Indexes
- Denton County Births, Marriages, and Deaths Indexes
- Denton County, Birth Indexes
- Dewitt County, Birth Indexes
- Dickens County, Birth Indexes
- Dimmit County Birth Index
- Dimmit County, Birth Indexes
- Donley County, Birth Indexes
- Duval County, Birth Indexes
- Early Records of Potter and Oldham counties, Texas
- Early Texas Birth Records, 1838-1878
- Early Travis County Births
- Eastland County Records, 1868-1949
- Eastland County, Birth Indexes
- Ector County, Birth Indexes
- Edwards County, Birth Indexes
- El Paso County Parish Registers, 1932-1956
- El Paso County Parish Registers, 1948-1956
- El Paso County, Birth Indexes
- Ellis County Genealogical Records 1850-1950 : vol. 12
- Ellis County, Birth Indexes
- Ellis County, General Index to Birth Records, 1860-1984 and Delayed Births, 1903-1984, Birth Registers, 1903-1926 and Death Records, 1923-1965
- Erath County, Birth Indexes
- Erath County, Birth Records, 1903-1926
- Fabens Parish Registers, 1921-1956
- Falls County Birth and Death Certificates
- Falls County, Birth Indexes
- Falls County, Index to Births, 1952-1968; Birth Records, 1903-1918; Death Records, 1934-1967
- Fannin County Births 1836-1944
- Fannin County Vital Records
- Fannin County, Birth Indexes
- Fayette County, Birth Indexes
- Fisher County Births and Delayed Births 1803-1933 and Birth Index 1886-1930
- Fisher County, Birth Indexes
- Floyd County Vital Statistics
- Floyd County, Birth Indexes
- Foard County, Birth Indexes
- Fort Bend County Births, Death, and Marriage Databases
- Fort Bend County, Birth Indexes
- Franklin County, Birth Indexes
- Freestone County, Birth Indexes
- Frio County, Birth Indexes
- Gaines County, Birth Indexes
- Galveston County Birth Index
- Galveston County, Birth Indexes
- Garza County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
- Garza County, Birth Indexes
- Gillespie County Vital Records Indexes
- Gillespie County, Birth Indexes
- Gillespie County, Index to Birth Records, 1840-1940; Birth Records, 1840-1933
- Glasscock County Vital Records Indexes
- Glasscock County, Birth Indexes
- Goliad County, Birth Indexes
- Gonzales County Vital Records Indexes
- Gonzales County, Birth Indexes
- Gonzales County, Birth Records, 1903-1934
- Gonzales County, Birth Records, 1903-2015
- Gray County Vital Records Indexes
- Gray County, Birth Indexes
- Grayson County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Grayson County, Birth Indexes
- Gregg County Birth Records, 1873-1876 and General Index of Births
- Gregg County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Gregg County Vital Records
- Gregg County, Birth Indexes
- Grimes County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Grimes County, Birth Indexes
- Guadalupe County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Guadalupe County, Birth Indexes
- Guadalupe County, Index to Births, 1903-1991; Birth Records, 1897-1942, Index to Deaths,1931-1995 ; Deaths Records, 1903-1970
- Hale County, Birth Indexes
- Hall County, Birth Indexes
- Hamilton County, Birth Indexes
- Hansford County Vital Records
- Hansford County, Birth Indexes
- Hardeman County, Birth Indexes
- Hardin County, Birth Indexes
- Harris County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Harris County, Birth Indexes
- Harrison County, Birth Indexes
- Hartley County, Birth Indexes
- Hartley County, Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Haskell County Birth Records, 1871-1930,
- Haskell County Vital Records
- Haskell County Birth Records 1869-1930, Death Records 1903-1979, and Death Index 1903-1980
- Haskell County, Birth Indexes
- Hays County Birth Indexes
- Hays County District Court Indexes, 1850-1989
- Hays County Vital Records
- Hays County, Birth Indexes
- Hays County, Birth Records, 1860-1944; Index, 1860-1944
- Hemphill County, Birth Indexes
- Henderson County Vital Records
- Henderson County, Birth Indexes
- Hidalgo County, Birth Indexes
- Hill County, Birth Indexes
- Hockley County Vital Records
- Hockley County, Birth Indexes
- Hood County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Hood County, Birth Indexes
- Hood County, Index to Birth Records, 1900-1934 and Death Records, 1913-1936
- Hopkins County Births and Deaths
- Hopkins County, Birth Indexes
- Houston County Vital Records
- Houston County, Birth Indexes
- Howard County, Birth Indexes
- Hudspeth County, Birth Indexes
- Hunt County, Birth Indexes
- Hutchinson County, Birth Indexes
- Index, Texas County Records
- Irion County Vital Records
- Irion County, Birth Indexes
- Jack County, Birth Indexes
- Jackson County, Birth Indexes
- Jasper County, Birth Indexes
- Jeff Davis County, Birth Indexes
- Jefferson County, Birth Indexes
- Jim Hogg County, Birth Indexes
- Jim Wells County, Birth Indexes
- Jim Wells County, Birth Record, 1911-1934
- Johnson County, Birth Indexes
- Johnson County, Births, 1860-1935; Indexes, ca. 1880-1941; Birth and Deaths,1910-1917; Indexes, ca. 1928-1944
- Jones County, Birth Indexes
- Karnes County, Birth Indexes
- Kaufman County, Birth Indexes
- Kaufman County, Index to Births, 1869-1973; Births, 1910-1934; Index to Deaths, 1903-1973 and Deaths, 1903-1966
- Kendall County, Birth Indexes
- Kenedy County, Birth Indexes
- Kent County, Birth Indexes
- Kerr County, Birth Indexes
- Kimble County, Birth Indexes
- King County, Birth Indexes
- Kinney County, Birth Indexes
- Kleberg County, Birth Indexes
- Knox County, Birth Indexes
- Knox County, Birth Records, 1901-1944; Death Records, 1909-1968
- La Salle County Birth Index
- La Salle County, Birth Indexes
- Lamar County, Birth Indexes
- Lamb County, Birth Indexes
- Lampasas County, Birth Indexes
- Lavaca County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Lavaca County, Birth Indexes
- Lavaca County, Birth Record, 1877-1935; Index 1859-1985
- Lee County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Lee County, Birth Indexes
- Lee County, Index to Births, 1873-1985 and Births 1903-1932
- Leon County, Birth Indexes
- Leon County, Births, 1903-1931; Index to Births and Death, 1927-1939; and Deaths, 1929-1934
- Liberty County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Liberty County, Birth Indexes
- Limestone County, Birth Indexes
- Lipscomb County, Birth Indexes
- Live Oak County, Birth Indexes
- Llano County, Birth Indexes
- Loving County, Birth Indexes
- Lubbock County, Birth Indexes
- Lynn County Births
- Lynn County, Birth Indexes
- Madison County, Birth Indexes
- Martin County, Birth Indexes
- Mason County, Birth Indexes
- Matagorda County, Birth Indexes
- Maverick County, Birth Indexes
- McCulloch County, Birth Indexes
- McKinney Births and Marriages
- McLennan County Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
- McLennan County Birth, Marriage, Death Index
- McLennan County, Birth Indexes
- McMullen County, Birth Indexes
- Medina County, Birth Indexes
- Menard County, Birth and Death Records, 1913-1934
- Menard County, Birth Indexes
- Menard County, Birth Records
- Midland County, Birth Indexes
- Milam County, Birth Indexes
- Milam County, Index to Births, 1903-1941 and Birth Records, 1873-1876, 1903-1933
- Mills County Clerk Records, 1841-1985
- Mills County, Birth Indexes
- Mills County, Mullin Birth and Death Records, 1917-1934
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Mitchell County, Birth Indexes
- Montague County Index to Births ca. 1860-1941; Birth Records, 1870-1985; Death Records, 1903-1938
- Montague County, Birth Indexes
- Montague County, Birth Records, 1860-1985, 1860-1985
- Montgomery County, Birth Indexes
- Moore County, Birth Indexes
- Morris County, Birth Indexes
- Motley County, Birth Indexes
- Nacogdoches County, Birth Indexes
- Navarro County, Birth Indexes
- Navarro County, Index to Births 1860-1946, and Births, 1873-1937; Marriage Records, 1933-1942; Deaths 1963-1965
- Newton County, Birth Indexes
- Nolan County, Birth Indexes
- Nolan County, Birth Records, 1903-1932
- Nueces County, Birth Indexes
- Ochiltree County, Birth Indexes
- Oldham County, Birth Indexes
- Orange County, Birth Indexes
- Orange County, Texas Online Records Search
- Palo Pinto County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Palo Pinto County, Birth Indexes
- Panola County Births 1926-1940
- Panola County, Birth Indexes
- Parker County, Birth Indexes
- Parmer County, Birth Indexes
- Pecos County, Birth Indexes
- Polk County, Birth Indexes
- Potter County, Birth Indexes
- Presido County, Birth Indexes
- Rains County, Birth Indexes
- Randall County, Birth Indexes
- Reagan County, Birth Indexes
- Real County, Birth Indexes
- Red River County, Birth Indexes
- Reeves County Birth and Death Records
- Reeves County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Reeves County, Birth Indexes
- Refugio County, Birth Indexes
- Roberts County, Birth Indexes
- Robertson County, Birth Indexes
- Robertson County, Birth Records 1865-1942
- Runnels County, Birth Indexes
- Rusk County, Birth Indexes
- Sabine County, Birth Indexes
- San Augustine County, Birth Indexes
- San Jacinto County, Birth Indexes
- San Patricio County, Birth Indexes
- San Saba County, Birth Indexes
- Schleicher County, Birth Indexes
- Schleicher County, Birth Record, 1914-1939
- Scurry County, Birth Indexes
- Shackelford County Probate Births, 1897-1978
- Shackelford County, Birth Indexes
- Shackleford County General Indexes to Births and Deaths [no dates]; Birth Records, 1873-1941 and Death Records, 1903-1981
- Shelby County, Birth Indexes
- Sherman County, Birth Indexes
- Smith County, Birth Indexes
- Smith County, Births, 1870-1937; General Index to Marriages, 1848-1975; Marriages, 1848-1951; Deaths, 1910-1967
- Somervell County, Birth Indexes
- Starr County, Birth Indexes
- Stephens County, Birth Indexes
- Sterling County, Birth Indexes
- Stonewall County, Birth Indexes
- Stonewall County, Births (1890-1930) and Probate Birth Records (1890-1969)
- Sutton County, Birth Indexes
- Swisher County Birth Indexes
- Swisher County Records, 1879-2012
- Swisher County, Birth Indexes
- Swisher County, Birth Records, 1903-1937
- Swisher County, Delayed Birth and Death Records, 1937-1959
- Tarrant County, Birth Indexes
- Taylor County Index to Birth Records 1885-1941
- Taylor County Death Records 1903-1986, Birth Records 1903-1932, Delayed Birth Records ca. 1897-1930, and amended Births 1900-1930
- Taylor County, Birth Indexes
- Terrell County, Birth Indexes
- Terry County, Birth Indexes
- Texarkana, Bowie County, Deaths (1910-1929) and Births (1919-1929)
- Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935
- Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
- Texas Births and Christenings, 1840-1981
- Throckmorton County Birth and probate Birth Records 1876-1930
- Throckmorton County, Birth Indexes
- Titus County, Birth Indexes
- Tom Green County, Birth and Death Records, 1910-1935
- Tom Green County, Birth Indexes
- Tom Green County, Birth Records, 1873-1932
- Travis County Vital Records
- Travis County, Birth Indexes
- Trinity County, Birth Indexes
- Tyler County, Birth Indexes
- United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931
- Upshur County, Birth Indexes
- Upton County, Birth Indexes
- Uvalde County, Birth Indexes
- Val Verde County, Birth Indexes
- Val Verde County, Death Certificates (1932-1971), Marriage Records (1885-1955), Card Index of Birth Records (1903-1932), and Birth Records (1906-1929)
- Van Zandt County, Birth Indexes
- Van Zandt County, Birth Records, 1872-1939
- Victoria County, Birth Indexes
- Walker County, Birth Indexes
- Waller County, Birth Indexes
- Ward County, Birth Indexes
- Washington County, Birth Indexes
- Washington County, Birth Records, 1928-1936; Births and Deaths, 1927-1936; Birth Index 1903-1991
- Webb County, Birth Indexes
- Wharton County, Birth Index, 1903-1928
- Wharton County, Birth Indexes
- Wheeler County, Birth Indexes
- Wichita County Index to Births, 1860-1942 and Birth Records, 1860-1933
- Wichita County, Birth Indexes
- Wichita County, Death Records, 1903-1935 and Index to Birth Records, 1860-1942
- Wilbarger County, Birth Indexes
- Willacy County, Birth Indexes
- Williamson County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Williamson County, Birth Indexes
- Williamson County, Index to Birth Records, 1903-1941; Birth Records,1873-1917 and Death Records, 1903-1951
- Wilson County, Birth Indexes
- Winkler County, Birth Indexes
- Wise County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Wise County Births and Marriages
- Wise County, Birth Indexes
- Wise County, Index to Births 1870-1939; Birth Records 1875-1939; Index to Deaths 1903-1939 and Death Records 1903-1966
- Wood County Index to Marriages, 1879-1979; Marriage Records, 1879-1935; Index to Births and Delayed Births 1860-1991 and Birth Records, 1903-1936
- Yoakum County, Birth Indexes
- Young County Birth Records 1926-1929
- Young County Birth Records 1930-1934
- Young County Birth Records 1935-1939
- Young County Death and Birth Records, 1910-1920
- Young County, Birth Indexes
- Zapata County, Birth Indexes
- Zavala County Birth Index
- Zavala County, Birth Indexes
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