Useful Websites - Births, Deaths and Marriages
Useful Websites - Births, Deaths and Marriages
Click on the links below for indexes to Scottish newspaper notices, private registers and other sources as well as indexes and images of statutory and parish birth, death and marriage records of other countries:
Scottish sources
- Dundee - church records and old graveyards
- Hawick - index to James Wilson's register of deaths, 1825-1862
- Hebridespeople.com - Isle of Harris, Berneray and St. Kilda
- National Library of Scotland: guide to Scottish newspaper indexes
- Scottish mining website: Fatal accidents and disasters
- Scottish strays: Scottish marriage index (select Anglo-Scottish link and scroll down page)
- Shetland newspaper transcriptions
Other countries
- Australia - New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages
- Australia - New South Wales family history – early church records (1788-1855)
- Australia - Victoria births, deaths and marriages - index search marine (1853-1920)
- Births, marriages and deaths: civil registrations (Library and Archives Canada)
- Births, deaths and marriages of passengers at sea, 1854-1890 (BMDregisters.co.uk)
- The National Archives - looking for records of a birth, marriage or death in England and Wales - links to websites with indexes to statutory and parish registers
- Coal-mining History Resource Centre - mining deaths and injuries, 1850-1914
- Deceased online
- FamilySearch (including FamilySearch Catalog)
- FreeBMD - statutory index of births, deaths and marriages for England and Wales, 1837-1983
- Free obituaries on-line
- FreeREG - indexes of parish registers of births, deaths and marriages for the United Kingdom
- Research your family tree at the General Register Office - a guide to ordering certificates and the libraries and other centres which hold fiche copies of the statutory indexes for England and Wales on GOV.UK
- Ireland - please go to our Useful websites - Irish family history page
- The Jewish community in mid-19th century Britain - an index for 1851
- Marriage locator for marriages 1837-1911 in England and Wales
- National burial index for England and Wales (find my past)
- New Zealand birth, death and marriage historical records
- Norway: parish registers (from 1623) (National Archives of Norway)
- UKBMD - online indexes from local registrars