Source Information

Ancestry.com. Livingston County, Missouri Birth Index, 1883-1884, 1888-1891 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2001.
Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Livingston County, Missouri Birth Records, 1883-84, 1888-91. Vol. I & III. Chillicothe, MO, USA: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, [19??].

About Livingston County, Missouri Birth Index, 1883-1884, 1888-1891

This collection of births (mostly stillbirths) adds to the growing number of databases in the Ellsberry Collection. Most records contain record number, birthdate, name, parents' names, and race. Many contain age and birth state of parents. Volume I starts in July of 1883 and ends in December of 1884. Volume III starts in January of 1888 and ends in April of 1891.The database was compiled by long-time researcher, school teacher, and professional genealogist Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry.

Ms. Ellsberry began genealogical publication in 1958, when she published her own family history, The Warrens and You. In researching her own family, she found that libraries needed additional information from cemetery records, wills, land records, probate records, census records, etc., to help people with their family history. Ellsberry decided that she wanted to help by publishing books that contained solid genealogical data. She taught school for 34 years, but on weekends and summer vacation, she would travel around to different courthouses and cemeteries, recording the information she found. She also corresponded with several researchers and helped them in their research. Ellsberry self-published more than 300 books, and most of them are available for sale.

Most of the compilation of these books took place between 1958 and into the 1970s, so the recorded information should include the cemetery and/or courthouse records of that time period.

Address:

Ms. Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry
P.O. Box 206
Chillicothe, MO 64601