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

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 over 8+ million records are available online. This ongoing project is regularly updated with new material.

FamilySearch offers access to the largest collection of free genealogy records in the world. These include the International Genealogical Index which indexes dates (1500-1885), and places, from birth, christening and marriage records worldwide.

FamilySearch, Record Search, Pilot site includes: New

Cheshire Church of England burial, christening and marriage records 1538-1907. Images available.
Cheshire Register of Electors 1842-1900 which lists those eligible to vote in county and local elections. Images available.
Diocese of Durham Bishops' Transcripts c1700-1900. The unindexed images of the transcripts are available for viewing online and include parishes in counties Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire and Cumberland.
A database of England baptisms and marriages 1700-1900. Some of this data was previously published on CD as the British Isles Vital Records Index. This database is not necessarily complete for any particular place or region.

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 . New

T he 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 19^th and 20^th 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 168+ 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.

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 811+ web sites that offer online transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses.

Ancestry.co.uk offers free access to the original images of birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales (1837-1983). A name search of births, marriages or deaths returns images of the index pages. A free database search is available (1984-2005). Other records include Pallots baptism and marriage indexes (1780-1837) plus numerous county parish and probate records.

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). New

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 2,714,866 birth, 902,633 marriage and 1,876,360 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 1985-2005, marriages 1837-2005 and deaths 1985-2005 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 online birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837. 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.

Available Counties

England and Wales: Online Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes