This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CBB.2ACE/5899.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Kentucky did not formalize a system for recording births and/or deaths until 1911. With the exception of a very, very few births and deaths recorded and placed on microfilm with the State of Kentucky, records bet. 1850-1860 of births and deaths do not exist. People depended upon whatever might be engraved on a tombstone if they were lucky enough to have that, or in a family Bible or similiar type of record. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA