Most records contain record number, birthdate, name, parents' names, and race.
Many contain age and birth state of parents. Volume I starts in July of 1883 and ends in December of 1884. Volume III starts in January of 1888 and ends in April of 1891.The database was compiled by long-time researcher, school teacher, and professional genealogist Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry. In researching her own family, she found that libraries needed additional information from cemetery records, wills, land records, probate records, census records, etc., to help people with their family history. Ellsberry decided that she wanted to help by publishing books that contained solid genealogical data.