One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, marriage, and death (BMD) information about their ancestors.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians and archivists (as well as the largest of them all - FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to birth, marriage, and death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific BMD information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual birth, marriage, and death certificates themselves. These free online collections have hundreds of millions of records in them in total.
There are a great number of online and offline collections that may include birth, marriage, and death information that are not included in the lists below. For example, newspapers, draft registration files, naturalization records, etc. have BMD info. To find out which types of other records may include BMD information, please see:
- 27 Ways to Find Ancestor Birth Information
- 22 Ways to Find Ancestors Marriage Information
- 21 Ways to Find Ancestors Death Information
The lists below are specific birth, marriage, and death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state of New Mexico.
(Updated September, 2018; recently added links are in BOLD)
General U.S.
- United States Births and Christenings, 1867-1931
- United States Deaths and Burials, 1867-1961
- United States Korean War Battle Deaths, 1950-1957
- United States Marriages, 1733-1990
- United States Social Security Death Index
- United States, Freedmen's Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
New Mexico
- Albuquerque, San Felipe de Neri Church Marriages
- Belen Diligencias Matrimoniales Records
- Bernalillo County Death Index
- Bernalillo County Marriages
- Chaves County Births
- Chaves County Births and Deaths 1903-1908
- Chaves County Deaths
- Cibola County Deaths
- Curry County Death Indexes
- Dona Ana County Births
- Dona Ana County Deaths 1907-1919
- Dona Ana County Deaths 1919-1940
- Dona Ana County Marriage Index
- Dona Ana County Marriages 1869-1982
- Eddy County Birth Index
- Eddy County Births 1912-1917
- Eddy County Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Eddy County Death Index
- Eddy County Deaths 1909-1912
- Eddy County Deaths and Obituaries (transcriptions)
- Eddy County Marriages 1890-1940
- Grant County Birth Index
- Grant County Death Index
- Grant County Deaths
- Hobbs Public Library Death and Obituary Index
- Lea County Deaths
- Los Alamos Marriage Index
- Luna County Births
- Luna County Deaths
- McKinley County Births
- McKinley County Deaths
- Mescalero Marriages 1914-1927
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- New Mexico Births and Christenings, 1726-1918
- New Mexico Death Index (1899-1949)
- New Mexico Deaths and Burials, 1788-1798; 1838-1955
- New Mexico Deaths, 1889-1945
- New Mexico Marriages Index
- New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918
- New Mexico Mortality Schedules by County 1885
- New Mexico Obituary and Death Notice Archive (transcriptions)
- New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations - Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799
- New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations - Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893
- New Mexico Roots Ltd. Diligencias Matrimoniales (1678-1869)
- New Mexico, County Death Records, 1907-1952
- New Mexico, County Marriages, 1885-1954
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Otero County Births
- Otero County Deaths
- Otero County Marriages
- Rio Arriba County Births
- Rio Arriba County Deaths
- Roosevelt County Deaths 1909-1918
- Roosevelt County Marriages
- San Juan County Birth Index 1907-1927
- San Juan County Death Index 1894-1922 & 1931-1981
- San Juan County Death Index 1907-1927
- San Juan County Deaths
- San Juan County Marriage Indexes 1887-1923
- San Juan County Marriages
- Sandoval County Deaths
- Santa Fe County Deaths
- Sierra County Deaths 1907-1927
- Taos County Baptisms
- Taos County Births 1866-1895
- Taos County Catholic Marriages
- Taos County Deaths
- Taos County Deaths
- Taos County Marriage Indexes 1904-1955
- Valencia County Deaths
- Valencia County Early Deaths 1907-1920
- Western States Marriage Index
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Links page.
Happy Hunting!