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Online Genealogy Records

These are genealogy links to Japan online databases and indexes that may include birth records, marriage records, death records, biographies, cemeteries, censuses, histories, immigration records, land records, military records, newspapers, obituaries, or probate records. Some subscription websites listed below can be searched for free at a FamilySearch center or FamilySearch affiliate library.

Births, Marriages, and Deaths: Church Records and Civil Registration Births 709-1949: Japan Village Records at Ancestry; index only ($) 709-1982: Japan Village Records at FamilySearch; index only 1628-1969: UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects at Ancestry; index & images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Births and Baptisms at Findmypast; index & images ($) Marriages 709-1949: Japan Village Records at Ancestry; index only ($) 709-1982: Japan Village Records at FamilySearch; index only 1628-1969: UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects at Ancestry; index & images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Banns and Marriages at Findmypast; index & images ($) Deaths 709-1949: Japan Village Records at Ancestry; index only ($) 709-1982: Japan Village Records at FamilySearch; index only 1628-1969: UK, Foreign and Overseas Registers of British Subjects at Ancestry; index & images ($) British Armed Forces and Overseas Deaths and Burials at Findmypast; index & images ($) Divorce

Census 709-1949: Japan Village Records at Ancestry; index only ($) 709-1982: Japan Village Records at FamilySearch; index only 1661-1875: Japan Census Records at FamilySearch; index only Compiled Genealogies 850-2012: Japan Genealogies at FamilySearch; images only; Also at Ancestry ($) Immigration Records 1887-1924: Japanese Immigrants to the US at BYU-Idaho; index only 1893-1941: Japan Passenger Lists at FamilySearch; index only Military 709-1949: Japan Village Records at Ancestry; index only ($) 709-1982: Japan Village Records at FamilySearch; index only Japanese Registers of POWs WWII at Forces of War; index only Periodicals PERiodical Source Index at Allen County Public Library; index Tax Records 709-1949: Japan Village Records at Ancestry; index only ($) 709-1982: Japan Village Records at FamilySearch; index only