RESPONSE: With regard to your first question, if the person was born after 1911 or died after 1911, birth and death records are much more readily available. You should make a posting with the name/s you are looking for and their ages or what you have and possibly where they were born or died. Anyone with a copy of the KY Birth and Death CD's should be able to provide you the date of birth or death and the Vol. and Cert # so you can order the record. If, however, the birth occurred prior to 1911 or the death occurred prior to 1911, there is a very good chance no record will be available. KY did not begin a formalized system for recording their vital statistics until 1911. With regard to the second question, I have absolutely no idea whether or not a particular color was used to designate an illegitimate status. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA Message text written by INTERNET:KYKNOX-L@rootsweb.com >I have 2 questions I'm hoping someone can answer for me... First, how do I go about getting a birth or death certificate if I don't know the exact date? Does the Commonwealth of KY or anyone else do searches? Second, someone told me that if an original birth cert. had a black background and white writing then that person was illegitimate is this true? Thanks, Lesa <

Regarding the Black Background with white writing...That is an untrue statement as my mother's is like that and It does list her father and mother. So I do not think this means anything. My mother was born 1928. Regina ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Collins" <joycecollins@compuserve.com> To: <KYKNOX-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:22 PM Subject: Does anyone know? > RESPONSE: > With regard to your first question, if the person was born after 1911 or > died after 1911, birth and death records are much more readily available. > You should make a posting with the name/s you are looking for and their > ages or what you have and possibly where they were born or died. Anyone > with a copy of the KY Birth and Death CD's should be able to provide you > the date of birth or death and the Vol. and Cert # so you can order the > record. If, however, the birth occurred prior to 1911 or the death > occurred prior to 1911, there is a very good chance no record will be > available. KY did not begin a formalized system for recording their vital > statistics until 1911. > > With regard to the second question, I have absolutely no idea whether or > not a particular color was used to designate an illegitimate status. > > Joyce Taylor Collins > La Palma, CA > > Message text written by INTERNET:KYKNOX-L@rootsweb.com > >I have 2 questions I'm hoping someone can answer for me... > First, how do I go about getting a birth or death certificate if I don't > know the exact date? Does the Commonwealth of KY or anyone else do > searches? > Second, someone told me that if an original birth cert. had a black > background and white writing then that person was illegitimate is this > true? > Thanks, Lesa > > < > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >