Search District of Columbia births & baptisms 1830-1955

There are more than 320,000 records in this collection, each with a transcript that provides details about births in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, during the 19th and 20th centuries. While the information for each person may vary, District of Columbia births & baptisms 1830-1955 typically includes:

• First and last name
• Birth year
• Birth place
• Christening year
• Christening date
• Christening place
• Father’s first and last name
• Mother’s first and last name
• Race
• Ethnicity

These records provide information on births and baptisms that occurred in the District of Columbia between 1830 and 1955. Although the district began officially collecting this information in 1874, many records are from years earlier. Some duplicates might appear in these search results and often contain slightly different information.

Use these records to uncover important facts about your ancestor that can help to fill in gaps in your family history. The information you learn from these records you can then use to find your ancestor in our other collections from the District of Columbia.

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These record sets use batch and film numbers to indicate the source of the information.

Film numbers refer to materials found at the Family History Library. These individual microfilms often contain copies of original records from courthouses, churches, and other repositories. To learn more about a specific film number, you can search the Family History Library Catalog on the FamilySearch website (see useful links).

Batch numbers refer to a set of records extracted from microfilms. Batches might be separated by a specific type of record (births, baptisms, marriages, burials, etc.) and multiple film numbers could be included in a single batch number.

Findmypast displays a “People with the same last name on this source” function in order to help locate related records in the same film and/or batch. This function can also reveal the records for family members included in the same original source. For some records, this will uncover additional entries for the same individual but with slightly different information.