Source Information

Ancestry.com. Vermont, U.S., Birth Index, 1981-2001 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Vermont Vital Records Office. Vermont Births, 1981-84; Vermont Births, 1985-88; and Vermont Births, 1989-2001. Burlington, VT, USA: Vermont Vital Records Office.

About Vermont, U.S., Birth Index, 1981-2001

This database contains an index, created by the Vermont Vital Records Office, to approximately 152,000 births occurring in the state of Vermont between 1981 and 2001. For all years, the following information is available:

  • Child's name
  • Birth date
  • Town of birth
  • State of birth

For the years 1985-2001 the following information is also included:

  • Sex of the child
  • Mother's name
  • Father's name

Additionally, in the records from 1989-2001 the mother's maiden name is also provided.

Locating Originals:

Vital records after 1982 are found at the Vital Records Office, 108 Cherry Street, P.O. Box 70, Burlington, Vermont, 05841. Files are open to the public but accessed by a clerk. The cost, either in person or by mail, is presently $5 per event.

Taken from Bartley, Scott A. and Alice Eichholz, "Vermont," in Ancestry's Red Book, ed. Alice Eichholz. (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1992).

About Birth Records in General:

Vital records can be great sources of genealogical information. Besides providing the name of the person for whom the record was created, vital records can provide a wealth of other information. Birth records will generally, but not always, contain the following information: Child - name, birthplace, date of birth, sex, hospital, time of birth; Father - name, race, birthplace, age, occupation; Mother - name, race, birthplace, age, occupation, residence, term of residence in the community, term of pregnancy, marital status, number of other living children, number of other deceased children, number of children born dead.

Modern (post-1910) birth records are maintained by the states. They are extremely valuable, but many researchers, learning birth information from home sources, fail to obtain birth certificates. This reluctance is most unfortunate and can result in an inaccurate or incomplete family genealogy. Modern birth records contain much more information than earlier records. Although birth certificates vary from state to state, most of them share much information in common.

Taken from Cerny, Johni, "Research in Birth, Death, and Cemetery Records." In The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy, ed. Loretto Dennis Szucs and Sandra Hargreaves Luebking (Salt Lake City: Ancestry, 1997).