Family History Research - Births,Deaths and Marriages

Virtually every country will have records of Births, Deaths and Marriages in the archives somewhere. In the USA you can do an online public records search at Search National Records to find out all sorts of vital information including Births,Deaths,Marriages and Criminal Records. If you find someone of interest you can then get a "Comprehensive Public Record Report" for $29.95 (Usually $59.95) or a "Basic Public Record" report for $14.95 and then for an extra $9.95 you can get a 1 year unlimited search pass. I think this $9.95 search pass is the best value for money search you'll find!

Other options are to veiw the Social Security Death Index at RootsWeb SSDI which is a great resource to know about, where you can search over 86 million records!. If you are interested in ordering Birth, Death and Marriage certificates online please go to Order Certificates Online!

I'm from Australia, so I will let my fellow Australian's know where they can get great information from also.

The New South Wales state government has a website for Births,Deaths & Marriages and it also has a section called "Family History" where you can do a free online search of births(1788-1909) and deaths(1788-1979), the search result will give you a name a year, registration number, mother's name and father's name and the name of the district it was recorded in. This is very useful information, and you can get an actual copy of the certificate for $28.00. They also have some early church records, which could be worth looking in to!

Here are some useful links for Births,Deaths and marriages for the rest of Australia:-
Victoria
South Australia
Western Australia
Queensland
Tasmania
Northern Territory

If you are looking for Births,Deaths and Marriages information in the UK the best place to go is UK BMD they also have Census records and various church records.

If you are looking for Canadian records you may want to try the Vital Statistics Office and also they are part of a wonderful program called Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange which is a free information resource for genealogists to share information contained on birth, marriage and death certificates. This sounds like a really great idea!

Sorry if I haven't mentioned your part of the world here, if you like just do a Google search on "My Country births, deaths and marriages information" and you are bound to find what you are looking for.

If you have any comments or great ideas you'd like to share, please make a comment as it is always appreciated.

See you again soon.

Peter Annett