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 April, 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
- New Mexico Births and Christenings, 1726-1918
- New Mexico Deaths and Burials, 1788-1798; 1838-1955
- New Mexico Deaths, 1889-1945
- New Mexico Marriages, 1751-1918
- New Mexico, County Death Records, 1907-1952
- New Mexico, County Marriages, 1885-1954
- New Mexico Roots Ltd. Diligencias Matrimoniales (1678-1869)
- New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations - Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1800-1893
- New Mexico Prenuptial Investigations - Archivos Históricos del Arzobispado de Durango, 1760-1799
- New Mexico Death Index (1899-1949)
- Western States Marriage Index
- Bernalillo County Marriages
- Chaves County Births and Deaths 1903-1908
- Dona Ana County Marriage Index
- Eddy County Births, Marriages and Deaths
- Los Alamos Marriage Index
- Taos County Catholic Marriages
- Taos County Baptisms
- Taos County Deaths
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Links! page.
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