| Birth and Death Certificates |
 | Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1963 Death Records, 1852-1910
This database contains the following Kentucky death records:
Death certificates, 1911-1953
Mortuary records, registers of deaths, and death certificates for Newport, Louisville, Lexington, Covington, and Jefferson County, up to 1911
Returns of death, 1852-1910 (not all years are extant for each county)
The information available for an individual will depend upon the record type listed above. Generally the information available includes:
Name of deceased
Race
Age at time of death
Gender
Death date
Death place
Birthplace
Birth date
Residence
Parents’ names
Parents’ birthplaces
Additional information, such as occupation, cause of death, and date and place of burial, may be available on the original record and can be obtained by viewing the image.
More about Kentucky deaths:
Although compliance was never complete, birth and death records for Kentucky begin as early as 1852 when statewide registration was first enacted. The requirement continued for only ten years. Some births and deaths were recorded (1874-79, 1892-1910), but observance remained sporadic.
Birth and death registration was enacted statewide on 1 January 1911 and generally adhered to by 1920.
Some of the above information was taken from Wendy Bebout Elliott, “Kentucky,” in Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources, 3d ed., ed. Alice Eichholz. (Provo, Utah: Ancestry, 2004). |
