Source Information

Ancestry.com. Kansas, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1885-1911 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data:

"Kansas Births and Christenings, 1818–1936." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2009, 2010. Index entries derived from digital copies of original and compiled records.

About Kansas, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1885-1911

This database is an index extracted from birth, baptism, and christening records from Kansas.

What’s in the Records

Volunteers extracted the birth, baptism, and christening details in this index from microfilmed copies of church, civil, family, and other records of Kansas births. Note that the number of available records can vary widely by county, and this database does not necessarily represent a comprehensive set of birth, baptism, and christening records for the state during this time.

Details in the index entries vary depending on the original record, but they may include

  • name
  • gender
  • race
  • birthplace
  • birth date
  • christening date
  • christening place
  • age at christening
  • death date
  • age at death
  • father’s name, age, birthplace
  • mother’s name, age, birthplace
  • paternal grandparents
  • maternal grandparents
  • FHL film number

The FHL film number refers to a microfilm copy of the source held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Because this database includes details extracted from family records, researchers will want to confirm facts with original and primary sources.