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Births, Deaths and Marriages

Click on the links below to search indexes (some linked to images) of birth, death and marriage records.

Scotland

— Irregular Border and Scottish runaway marriages

Leaflet with information about location of wedding registers at Gretna Green, etc.

— Gretna Green index (1795-1895) (Pay-per-view)

— Howff database, register of burials for Dundee's oldest cemetery

Bequeathed to the town by Mary Queen of Scots, it was the main burial ground for around 300 years, closing to interments in the mid 19th century.

— National Library of Scotland: guide to Scottish newspaper indexes

— Scottish mining website: Fatal accidents and disasters

Site set up by a small group of volunteers to provide information on miners' lives compiled from old reports, gazetteers and newspaper articles.

— Scottish strays; Scottish marriage index

Database of marriages submitted by Manchester and Lancashire Family History Society's Anglo-Scottish branch. Select Anglo-Scottish link and scroll down page.

— Wesleyan register of baptisms, Dundee, 1785-1898

United Kingdom and Ireland

— Births, deaths and marriages of passengers at sea (1854-1890)

BMDregisters.co.uk: official non-parochial births for records of birth, baptism, marriage, death and burial taken from non parish sources.

— Coal-mining history resource centre

A UK national database of mining deaths and injuries, 1850-1914.

— Deceased online

The central database for information about UK burials and cremations.

— FreeREG: UK parish register information

Free internet searches of baptism, marriage, and burial records, that have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist registers of the UK. FreeREG is a companion project to FreeBMD, a database of the GRO birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837 and FreeCEN, a database of census information.

— General Register Office (Northern Ireland)

The General Register Office (GRO) is responsible for the administration of marriage and civil partnership law and the registration of births, deaths, marriages, civil partnerships and adoptions in Northern Ireland.

—General Register Office (Republic of Ireland)

The General Register Office (Oifig An Ard-Chláraitheora) is the central civil repository for records relating to births, deaths and marriages in Ireland.

— Irish ancestors

From The Irish Times. Provides a civil and parish register request service.

— Irish civil registration indexes, 1845-1958 (FamilySearch record search pilot)

Please note that the indexes cover non-Roman Catholic marriages from 1845 and all births, deaths and marriages from 1864. From 1922 the indexes cover events in the Republic of Ireland and not the six counties of Northern Ireland. For information about how to order certificates see The General Register Office website.

— Irish Family History Foundation

Online genealogical databases of parish records from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Requires registration.

— Irish Genealogy: Central Signposting Index

Index to a database containing over 3 million Irish genealogical records, pointing enquirers to local county-based genealogy centres.

— Jewish community in mid-19th century Britain

Ongoing project to provide Births, Deaths and Marriages and other information about Jews living in England, Scotland and Wales with data linked to the 1851 census.

— UKBMD

Online indexes from local registrars, England and Wales.

England and Wales

— Ancestry.co.uk birth, marriage and death records: indexes 1837-2005

— BMDindex.co.uk: complete BMD index 1837-2005

Subscription service providing a fully searchable/viewable electronic version of the index to civil birth, marriage and death records for England and Wales.

— BMDregisters.co.uk: the official non-parochial BMDs service

Pay-per-view database of the non-parochial registers of the non-Conformists 1567 to 1858 held by TNA in classes RG4 and RG5.

— Familyrelatives.com

Free searches of 1984-2005 indexes and overseas index 1761-2004.

— Findmypast.co.uk: births, marriages and deaths 1538-2005

A family history and genealogy website based in London, containing over 550 million family history records, with more being added all the time. Includes the Federation of Family History Societies national burial index.

— FreeBMD

Ongoing project to transcribe the statutory index of births, deaths and marriages from 1837 to 1983.

— Genealogical sources at the National Library of Wales

— General Register Office

Includes online ordering of certificates and a guide to libraries and other centres which hold fiche copies of the statutory indexes for England and Wales.

— GENUKI: online parish clerks

The on-line parish clerks projects provide a focus for the transcription of historical records at parish level.

International

— Free obituaries on-line

Links to obituaries, death or funeral notices, mostly from newspapers - all free.

— India: burial sites

Information relating to the approximate two million European graves of the colonial period in India.

— International Genealogical Index (IGI)

Covers all regions of the world. Part of the FamilySearch website which also includes the US social security death index.

— National Archives Norway: digitised parish registers

— New South Wales Registry of BDMs: online historical indexes

— New Zealand birth, death and marriage historical records

— World GenWeb project

A project that aims to cover every country in the world.

— World Vital Records