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/EBB.2ACE/2557.1 Message Board Post: Hello, Kentucky did not have a system for formally recording births prior to 1911. The closest thing you would probably find is this Isaac BROWN married to a Mary listed in the census records. If you knew the names of some of their other children, then "perhaps" a marriage record later on for one of their children would show the maiden name of the mother. Joyce Taylor Collins La Palma, CA