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Civil registration started in July 1837, and a manuscript index of names was created to help locate a specific certificate. Arranged quarterly and alphabetically, these indexes may be accessed at Family History Centers, at the National Archives UK and a limited number of other repositories worldwide. In recent years volunteers began transcribing and adding the data from the manuscript indexes into a centralized index. Two sites with online civil registration indexes to births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales are located at the following websites: | Civil registration started in July 1837, and a manuscript index of names was created to help locate a specific certificate. Arranged quarterly and alphabetically, these indexes may be accessed at Family History Centers, at the National Archives UK and a limited number of other repositories worldwide. In recent years volunteers began transcribing and adding the data from the manuscript indexes into a centralized index. Two sites with online civil registration indexes to births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales are located at the following websites: | ||
1. | 1. [http://www.freebmd.org.uk/ FreeBMD] - Search features include: | ||
*Name | *Name | ||
*Date the event was registered | *Date the event was registered | ||
*Name of the district and county | *Name of the district and county | ||
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*Type of event (birth, marriage, or death) | *Type of event (birth, marriage, or death) | ||
*Name of the individual | *Name of the individual | ||
*Year and quarter of the year when registered. Only the last month of a quarter is given: March, June, September, and December. | *Year and quarter of the year when registered. Only the last month of a quarter is given: March, June, September, and December. | ||
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*Volume and page number | *Volume and page number | ||
Since this is an ongoing project, you may want to know what years have already been added to the site. A set of graphs on the site shows which years have already been indexed. To link from the Home Page, click '''Information''', click '''Statistics''', and click '''Coverage Charts'''. | Since this is an ongoing project, you may want to know what years have already been added to the site. A set of graphs on the site shows which years have already been indexed. To link from the Home Page, click '''Information''', click '''Statistics''', and click '''Coverage Charts'''. | ||
2. [http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ UKBMD website] - Click on and enter the county desired to determine whether a county has a local bmd index project as not all counties are currently in process of indexing the civil registration indexes to births, marriages, and deaths. | |||
The following counties (as of 1 November 2007) have an online indexing project for BMDs currently underway: Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Durham, Hampshire, Kent, Northumberland, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, and York. Most icounty-wide ndexes go up to the year 1950 and some are an on-going project and are incomplete. Keep checking back for updated, new information. Search features include: | The following counties (as of 1 November 2007) have an online indexing project for BMDs currently underway: Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Durham, Hampshire, Kent, Northumberland, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Wiltshire, and York. Most icounty-wide ndexes go up to the year 1950 and some are an on-going project and are incomplete. Keep checking back for updated, new information. Search features include: | ||
*Name | *Name | ||
*Date the event was registered | *Date the event was registered | ||
*Name of the district and county | *Name of the district and county | ||
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*Type of event (birth, marriage, or death) | *Type of event (birth, marriage, or death) | ||
*Name of the individual | *Name of the individual | ||
*Year and quarter of the year when registered. Only the last month of a quarter is given: March, June, September, and December. | *Year and quarter of the year when registered. Only the last month of a quarter is given: March, June, September, and December. | ||
*Name of the district where the event was registered. A district is a geographic area that was responsible to register the event. | *Name of the district where the event was registered. A district is a geographic area that was responsible to register the event. | ||
*Volume and page number | *Volume and page number | ||
3. | 3. [http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/nameindex/ai_content.php The Genealogist website] has indexed and posted online most of the births, marriages and deaths throughout the country. The indexes provide the same information as listed above. | ||
=== Records at the Family History Library === | === Records at the Family History Library === | ||