About this Service
This service only issues certified copies of microfilmed birth certificates for births that occurred in Louisiana between 1819–1922. The database also contains birth records for births that occurred in Orleans parish as early as 1790; however, microfilmed birth certificates may not be available for many of these older records. For example, searching for a birth that occurred in Orleans parish between 1790–1819 may produce results taken from the official Orleans parish birth index, but individual birth certificates for this period do not exist in the archives. We regret that we cannot issue certified copies of birth certificates for births that occurred in Orleans parish during this period.

Birth records for all other parishes were not required by law until 1918. Some records are available prior to this date, but they are not comprehensive for all parishes.

For more information about obtaining copies of Louisiana birth certificates for births that occurred less than 100 years ago, visit the Vital Records Registry.

Instructions
Click Basic Search to search for records by the child’s name, mother’s maiden name, or the father’s name. To search using other criteria, click Advanced Search.

You can search by the birth child’s first and last name, mother’s first and maiden name, or the father’s first and last name (at the time these records were created, a child’s last name was always recorded as the father’s last name). You can also search using partial names. For example, to search for a birth record for John Doe, you can enter the name in any of the following formats:

• Doe, John
• John Doe
• Doe

To search using dates or other criteria, click Advanced Search.

By default, results are sorted alphabetically by the birth child’s last name and are displayed in ascending order. You can sort the results on a different field by clicking the field heading you want to use at the top of the results grid. Click the field heading again to display the sorted results in descending order.

Basic Search		Clear Search

You can search for birth records using any combination of the following criteria:

Last Name		Clear Search
First/Middle Name
Mother's Last Name
Mother's First/Middle Name
Father's Last Name
Father's First/Middle Name
Parish	Select Parish... 01 - Acadia 02 - Allen 03 - Ascension 04 - Assumption 05 - Avoyelles 06 - Beauregard 07 - Bienville 08 - Bossier 09 - Caddo 10 - Calcasieu 11 - Caldwell 12 - Cameron 13 - Catahoula 14 - Claiborne 15 - Concordia 16 - De Soto 17 - East Baton Rouge 18 - East Carroll 19 - East Feliciana 20 - Evangeline 21 - Franklin 22 - Grant 23 - Iberia 24 - Iberville 25 - Jackson 26 - Jefferson 27 - Jefferson Davis 28 - Lafayette 29 - Lafourche 30 - La Salle 31 - Lincoln 32 - Livingston 33 - Madison 34 - Morehouse 35 - Natchitoches 36 - Orleans 37 - Ouachita 38 - Plaquemines 39 - Point Coupee 40 - Rapides 41 - Red River 42 - Richland 43 - Sabine 44 - St. Bernard 45 - St. Charles 46 - St. Helena 47 - St. James 48 - St. John the Baptist 49 - St. Landry 50 - St. Martin 51 - St. Mary 52 - St. Tammany 53 - Tangipahoa 54 - Tensas 55 - Terrebonne 56 - Union 57 - Vermilion 58 - Vernon 59 - Washington 60 - Webster 61 - West Baton Rouge 62 - West Carroll 63 - West Feliciana 64 - Winn
Month	Select Month... 01 - January 02 - February 03 - March 04 - April 05 - May 06 - June 07 - July 08 - August 09 - September 10 - October 11 - November 12 - December
Day		Invalid Day
Year		Invalid Year