What information is available?
The law providing for registration of births in Texas went into effect
in 1903 and became mandatory in 1921. The law was not fully complied
with until as late as the 1930s or 1940s. consequently, a large
number of births were not recorded at all, even after registration was
mandatory.
The information that is available on
the birth record indexes includes the following:
From 1926 - 1949
Birth Index Records (1926-1949)
Person's last name,
first name, middle name, suffix, mother's first, middle and last name,
father's first, middle and last name, suffix, month, day, and year of birth,
sex and county of birth.
This is not the actual
certificate or license, only an index that points to the actual certificate
or license at the
Texas Department of Health or
County court house.
Please allow 5 - 10 days for the
research to be perform.
The Texas vital records indexes were written
in various formats, which means that the results could be in any of the
following forms:
