England and Wales: Online
Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes
Web
Sites for Genealogists - An
Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num
Parish
Records
FreeREG.
This project aims to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage, and
burial records, which have been extracted from parish registers and
non-conformist church records in the UK dating from 1538. Currently 18.7+ million
records are available online. This ongoing project is regularly
updated with new material.
Updated Online Parish Clerks are volunteers who collect
genealogical information about a specific parish and answer email enquiries
without charge. Counties represented currently include Cornwall, Devon, Dorset,
Essex, Hampshire, Lancashire, Somerset, Sussex and Warwickshire.
FamilySearch
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This site features free,
searchable Historical Record Collections.
The record collections for Europe include:
• Channel Islands Births and
Baptisms, 1820-1907
• England Births and Christenings,
1538-1975
• England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991
• England
Marriages, 1538–1973
• England and Wales, Non-Conformist Record Indexes
• Great Britain Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977
• Great Britain
Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988
• Great Britain Marriages,
1797-1988
• Isle of Man Births and Baptisms, 1821-1911
• Isle of
Man Deaths and Burials, 1844-1911
• Isle of Man Marriages, 1849–191127
Apr 2010
• Wales Births and Baptisms, 1541-1907
• Wales Deaths
and Burials, 1586-1885
• Wales Marriages, 1541-1900
There are also collections
available for Cheshire, Cornwall, Durham, Essex, Gloucestershire,
Lancashire, Norfolk, Northumberland, Warwickshire and Yorkshire. You will
find details here Resources
arranged by county.
The National Archives (UK) Digital Microfilm allows you to search and download some of the
most popular records. These files are large (some up to 800 pages) so a
broadband connection is essential. These documents are currently free of charge
to download. These records have not been indexed and so you will need to scroll
through the pdfs, much as you would when using a microfilm. The following series
of records on microfilm have been digitised and are available to download
as pdf files.
• RG 43: General Register Office: Indexes to
Miscellaneous Foreign Returns of Births, Marriages and Deaths. Indexes to the
non-statutory registers and returns in RG 32 to RG 36, and to certain Army and
Statutory registers retained by the Registrar-General.
• WO 42: War Office: Officers' Birth
Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers. Certificates of birth, baptism,
marriage and death, with wills, administrations, statements of services and
personal papers of officers and their families, in cases where the officer died
on service or on half pay and his widow applied for a pension, or application
was made for a child's compassionate allowance.
This site
by Hugh Wallis offers additional search options using information from
FamilySearch <www.familysearch.org>
International Genealogical
Index (IGI). It is designed to allow you to search within specific parishes
(British Isles and North America)
using IGI batch numbers which can refine your
search very closely to
individual parishes. This site allows you to select a county, then a parish and
then a batch number for births/christenings or marriages. Enter a surname and
the IGI results from the FamilySearch
site are returned.
A great way to locate all the children of a particular couple. It is also
possible to do batch searches, if you know the batch number, directly from
FamilySearch
using the Advanced
Search option and
selecting IGI.
The Official Non-Parochial BMDs
Service with online searches of birth, baptism, marriage, death and
burial records from non parish sources (nonconformist). Includes records for
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Protestant Dissenters (Dr Williams
Library), Wesleyans and Independents. This site also includes 100,000 records of
births, baptisms, marriages, deaths and burials of British subjects
overseas and on board ships in the 19th and 20th centuries. A basic search is free with fees for
advanced searching and to download images.
British
Origins
offers access to Boyd's Marriage Index (1538-1840); Marriage Licence
Allegations Index (1694-1850); St Andrew Holborn marriage
index (1754-1812), London Burials Index (1538-1872) plus other databases.
There is a free surname search and a range of subscriptions options are
available.
The
Middlesex Marriages Index
by Sandy Coleman lists 45,000+ Middlesex marriages (1563-1895).
The
Joiner
Marriage Index for
the North of England and Hertfordshire by Paul Joiner. Over 1
million marriages are indexed (1500s-1837). There is a
free
name search available with a fee of £2.50 to search up to 10
records.
National
FreeBMD This ongoing project offers free
access to the civil registration indexes for England and Wales (1837-1983).
Currently 266+ million records are available plus access to scanned images
of the original indexes. This great site is fully searchable and is regularly
updated with new material.
Updated
Deceased Online
is a central database for UK burials and cremations. The free name
search returns full names, date and place of burial or cremation. Fees apply to
access register scans or transcripts, grave photographs and location maps.
General
Register
Office with civil registration information for England and
Wales. Certificates can be ordered online.
UK BMD.
Births,
Marriages and Deaths on the Internet.
This site offers links to 2,195+ web sites that offer online transcriptions of
UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses.
Ancestry.co.uk.
This commercial site offers searchable access to birth, marriage and death indexes (and index images) for
England and Wales (1837-2005). Other records available include Pallots baptism and marriage
indexes (1780-1837) plus numerous county parish and probate
records.
Currently 193+ birth, marriage and death databases are available for England
and 27+ for Wales. A variety of subscription options
are available.
Findmypast.com
offers
access to exact replicas of the original birth, marriage and death
indexes for England and Wales. From 1837-1983 scanned pages of the
indexes are available. A database search is available for 1984-2005.
There are indexes to births, marriages, deaths at sea
from1854 and for the British overseas 1761-2002. Other indexes include
divorces, death duty registers, National Burial Index (1538-2005) and
City of London burials 1742-1904. A variety of pricing plans exist.
The
Genealogist. This
commercial site offers access to the complete BMD Indexes 1837-2005 as
published by the GRO. The records are in database format 1984-2005 and
as images of the original index pages 1983- 1837. They also offer
access to 1,100+ parish register transcripts. A range of
subscription options are available.
Combined
Regions
Multi-Region BMD
Search offers combined searching of
the Bath, Berkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, North Wales, Staffordshire,
West
Midlands, Wiltshire and Yorkshire databases. Use the main county sites
(listed below) if you know the area as they offer more options.
North
East BMD. A gateway to the online BDM
indexes for the north east of England including Middlesbrough, Redcar
and Cleveland, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Newcastle upon Tyne,
County Durham and Darlington.
West
Midlands BMD (Staffordshire,
Warwickshire and Worcestershire) online birth, marriage and death
indexes from 1837. This ongoing project is adding new data as
it
becomes available.
Bath
& North East Somerset
Bath BMD Birth,
death and marriage indexes from Bath & North East Somerset
register
office (1837-2004) are being put online. This ongoing project is adding
new data as it becomes available.
Berkshire
Berkshire
BMD
online birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837 (ongoing).
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire
County Council
CAMDEX Online Records to Birth, Marriage and Death indexes 1837-2004. This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.
Cheshire
Cheshire BMD The
birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837 are being put online.
Currently 3 million+ birth, 1 million+ marriage and 2
million+ death records are available.
Derbyshire
Federation
of Family History Societies, Family History Online. This pay to use
site offers access to the
Derbyshire Family
History Society's online birth, marriage and death index project. Currently births
(1837-1911), marriages (1837-1949) and deaths
(1837-1949) are available.
Durham
Durham County Council.
Click on
Registrars Certificates, listed under
Popular
Pages,
for access to birth, death and marriage indexes. Currently marriage
indexes 1837+, death indexes 1991+ and many of the birth indexes are
available.
Darlington
Borough Council offers online searching of
the birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837.
Gateshead
Council
is placing birth, marriage and death indexes online from
1837. This
ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.
South
Tyneside Register Office offers online
searching of birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837. This project is
ongoing and the scope of the index varies depending on the area.
Sunderland
Council is placing birth, marriage and death
indexes online from 1837. Currently births 1837-2007, marriages 1837-2010 and
deaths 1837-1970 and 1985-2007 are available.
Isle of
Wight
Isle of
Wight
Family History Society online birth and marriage
indexes 1837-2002 plus
death indexes 1837-2004.
Kent
Kent
County Council indexes for births and deaths 1992-2002 and
marriages 1837-2002.
Lancashire
Lancashire BMD The
birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837 are being put
online.
This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.
Lincolnshire
North
Lincolnshire Council online birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837 (ongoing).
London
Tower Hamlets
Register Office is
placing birth, death and marriage indexes
online from 1837.
Northumberland
Northumberland & Durham Family History Society and
Newcastle
Register Office birth, marriage and death
indexes project. Currently births 1837-1870 and marriages 1837-1900 are
online.
Staffordshire
Staffordshire
BMD The
birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837 are being put online. This
ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.
Warwickshire
Warwickshire County Council - Local and
Family History. Use the
Copy birth, marriage and death certificates
link. The
Apply online
options offer online access to birth, death and marriage indexes from
1837-2010. This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes
available.
Wiltshire
Wiltshire
BMD
The birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837 are being put online.
This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.
Yorkshire
Yorkshire
BMD online
birth, death and marriage indexes
1837-1950.This ongoing project is adding new data as it
becomes available.
Barnsley
Register Office, in conjunction with
the Barnsley Family History Society, is placing birth, death
and marriage indexes online from 1837.
Rotherham
Council is placing births and
marriages indexes for the Borough of Rotherham online from 1837.
Sheffield
Register Office is placing birth, death and
marriage indexes online.
Tees
Valley
Indexes to birth, death and marriages records held at
Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar & Cleveland
register offices. The scope of the index, from 1837, varies depending
on the area.
Wales
North
Wales BMD online
birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837. This ongoing
project
is adding new data as it becomes available.
Wrexham Council
Marriage Index 1837-1997. This
ongoing project, in conjunction with the Clwyd Family History Society, will
also provide online indexes to Wrexham births and
deaths 1837-1950.
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