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/ZKB.2ACE/446.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I'm sorry -- I assumed you were looking for someone from Montgomery County since you posted on the Montgomery County board. The registration of births in Missouri has been required only during 1883-1893 and since 1910. Your James King would have been born before 1883, so there would be no birth certificate for him.