This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KNIGHT-SIMMONS-BAUGH-CHRISTMAS-LUCE Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/QBB.2ACI/3068.4 Message Board Post: In some cases some records are found for birth and deaths pior to 1911.It did not become mandtory until 1911. I think that was when the law was enacted to establish birth and death records. --- The Vital Statistics office has on file birth certificates from 1911 to present. This office has no records of births occurring prior to the above date except delayed records of births for persons born before 1911 which have been established by affidavits and documentary evidence. http://chfs.ky.gov/dph/vital/birthcert.htm