Soundex Birth Certificate Index
About the Collection
These are phonetic (Soundex) indices to birth certificates used to locate the records. The indices were compiled by the Works Projects Administration in the 1930s. Arrangement is by Soundex code number.
Search for the Soundex code for quick access to the pages with the mostly likely matches. The National Archives has a guide to Soundex and Maine Genealogy provides a converter online.
Names have been recognized by OCR and are available in the full text search. Finding the Soundex code and then searching with that may have better results.
Bureau of Vital Statistics Soundex birth certificate index
These are phonetic (Soundex) indices to birth certificates used to locate the records. The indices were compiled by the Works Projects Administration in the 1930s. Arrangement is by Soundex code number. Within an individual code number, volumes are indexed by the father's first given name. The information includes the child's name, the mother's maiden name, the child's sex and birth date, the county of birth, the file number, the cross index name, and the father's name. Indices cover three 10-year time periods: 1904-1914, 1915-1924, and 1925-1934. Within each time period are four separate volumes (A-E, F-L, M-R, S-Z). 1904-1924 online.
Page Last Updated January 29, 2024.
About this Collection
Originally published in August 2016 and February 2019. Digitized by Gina Strack and Avalon Snell. Metadata by Gina Strack.