This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/1MB.2ACI/2079 Message Board Post: Can anyone tell me how far back Missouri has birth records. Just found out that my gg grandfather was born December 1848 in Carthage Missouri. I also found out at that time his father was born in Tenn. His mother in Virginia. He married a Catherine Lee Jacks and they went to Arkansas. thanks