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Idaho began registering births and deaths at the county level in 1907. Before 1907, the only birth and death records were kept by churches, midwives, mortuaries, and physicians. After 1911, all births and deaths were registered directly with the state rather than the county.

This database of Illinois marriages to 1850 contains over 155,000 names. Each entry includes groom, bride, marriage date, county, and state. Every name is indexed so you can search for one name, or two names that are linked.

This database is an index to approximately 707,000 individuals who were married in select areas of Illinois between 1851 and 1900. A complete list of the counties included in this index is provided below. Information that may be found in this database for each individual includes their name, gender, spouse's name, marriage date, location, and source information. Marriage records are great sources for genealogists because they document an individual in a particular place and time as well as provide details about that person's marriage. Note: This index is not comprehensive. Therefore, if you do not find your ancestor in this index it does not necessarily mean that the marriage did not exist in the time and place in which you expected it.

This database of Indiana marriages to 1850 contains nearly 200,000 names. Each entry includes groom, bride, marriage date, county, and state. Every name is indexed so you can search for one name, or two names that are linked.

This database is an index to individuals who were married in Indiana between 1802 and 1892. A complete list of which counties are included and the years for which there are records represented in this index is provided below. Information that may be found in this database for each individual includes their name, spouse's name, marriage date, location, and source. Marriage records are great sources for genealogists because they document an individual in a particular place and time as well as provide details about that person's marriage.

These cemetery records represent seventy-six counties in Iowa which were transcribed by the Works Project Administration, Graves Registration Project. This collection is the largest compilation of the Iowa WPA cemetery records found in a single place. The database was created from copies of the transcriptions created by the Works Progress Administration; because of multi-generational copies some names were hard to decipher. As with any genealogical index, the data is to be used as a finding aid to original records. Records in this database generally include the page number where the record can be found in the WPA index, the name of the deceased, birth date, death date, age, cemetery name, town name, and additional comments if noted. This collection of Iowa Cemetery records represents an important tool in finding your early Iowa ancestors.

This database of Iowa marriages to 1850 contains over 21,000 names. Each entry includes groom, bride, marriage date, county, and state. Every name is indexed so you can search for one name, or two names that are linked.

Obtained by the United States in the Louisiana Purchase, Iowa became a territory in 1838 and a state in 1846. Taken from microfilm copies of original county documents, each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of residence. Records vary between counties.

This database is an index to more than 65 thousand divorces that were filed in Iowa from 1992-2008.

Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began 1 July 1880 in Iowa. This collection includes indexed images of marriage records held at the State Archives of Iowa for the years 1880 through 1940 for all counties.

This database is an index to deaths reported in the Joplin Daily News and News Herald from 1 March 1878 to 31 December 1905. This database is also a chronological index to selected articles from these newspapers. Deaths reported in these newspapers took place not only in Jasper County—many of the deaths reported took place throughout the state as well as the country, as reported deaths included relatives of residents, former residents, and current residents of Jasper County. Information contained in this index includes name of deceased, age at time of death or birth date, date of death, and date of newspaper report.

This database is an index to deaths occurring in Kankakee County, Illinois between 1870 and 1992.

This database is an index to marriages occurring in Kankakee County, Illinois between 1889 and 1962.

Following the Civil War, Kansas experienced a population boom as immigrants and settlers moved into the area. This database is a collection of marriage records for the state before and during these growth years. It contains the records for nearly 22,000 marriages. The names were extracted from LDS microfilms and local newspapers. Each entry shows the names of spouses, date of marriage, county in which the record is kept, and reference information about the source.This database is not intended to be complete and although the record was kept by one county, the marriage may have been performed in another. The following is a statistical breakdown of records in the database per county: No county named 195, Allen 216, Anderson 2, Andrew 1, Atchison 31, Ballard 1, Bourbon 9, Breckenridge 12, Brown 13, Buchanan 1, Butler 815, Calhoun 1, Callaway 1, Canadawest 1, Chase 2, Cherokee 1041, Clark 283, Cloud 1, Coffey 1, Crawford 8, Dickinson 4741, Doniphan 56, Douglas 119, Ford 1, Franklin 2, Geary 1, Genesee 1, Gray 1, Greenwood 4, Harper 1, Holt 1, Hunter 1, Jackson 11, Jefferson 29, Johnson 10, Kingman 1, Leavenworth 99, Leroy 1, Lincoln 2, Linn 9, Lykins 1, Madison 7, Marshall 2, McDonald 1, McGee 1, Meade 1, Miami 7, Morris 3, Nemaha 1, Neosho 3005, Osage 9, Osawatomi 1, Osborn 8, Pattawatomi 17, Platte 5, Ray 1, Republic 1, Riley 3, Shawnee 57, St. Louis 1, Vernon 2, Warren 1, Washington 1, Wilson 1, Woodson 2.

This database is a compilation of cemetery records held at the Kansas State Historical Society that were scanned onsite.

This collection contains various vital records from the state of Kansas, including births, baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths, and funerals.

This database of Kentucky marriages from 1802-1850 contains over 145,000 names. Each entry includes groom, bride, marriage date, county, and state. Every name is indexed so you can search for one name, or two names that are linked.

Admitted to the Union as the 15th state in 1792, Kentucky was settled predominantly by Irish, German, and English men and women in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This database contains marriage records from Allen, Boyle, Butler, Caldwell, Christian, Clay, Crittenden, Garrard, Greenup, Henderson, Henry, Hopkins, Jessamine, Larue, Lawrence, Lincoln, Logan, Lyon, Madison, Magoffin, Marshall, McCracken, Menifee, Mercer, Monroe, Morgan, Muhlenberg, Ohio, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Taylor, Todd, Washington, and Webster Casey counties between 1851 and 1900. Taken from microfilm copies of original county documents, each record provides spouses' names, marriage date, and county of residence. Records for "white" individuals and "colored" individuals were kept in separate volumes. This database only includes the volumes of "white" marriages.Allen County was formed in 1815 from Barren and Warren counties. The records in this database cover the years 1851 through 1879.

This database is an index to nearly 516 thousand divorces that took place in the state of Kentucky between 1962 and 2005.

"Known as ""The First City of Kansas,"" Leavenworth was home to over 75,000 people in 1950. This database is a collection of burial permits from the city in the 1950s and 1960s. Compiled by the Leavenworth County Genealogical Society, the permits are for persons that died outside Leavenworth but were buried in the city. A great number of these permits are for persons buried in one of the two National Cemeteries located in Leavenworth. For those persons seeking ancestors from Leavenworth, Kansas, this can be a helpful source of information.Note: All entries with an asterisk (*) after the first name also had an obituary published in the Leavenworth Times (local newspaper)."