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 often 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:
The lists below are specific birth, marriage, and death indexes and record collections that are available for free online from the Southern states of the U.S. Also included is the total number of BMD record collection links and the added collections from the previous update
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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 often 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 from the Southern states of the U.S. Also included is the total number of BMD record collection links and the added collections from the previous update
- Alabama Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (84 total, 26 new)
- Arkansas Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (97 total, 36 new)
- Florida Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (91 total, 29 new)
- Georgia Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (130 total, 44 new)
- Kentucky Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (147 total, 64 new)
- Louisiana Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (70 total, 12 new)
- Mississippi Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (95 total, 39 new)
- Missouri Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (124 total, 48 new)
- North Carolina Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (111 total, 37 new)
- Oklahoma Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (69 total, 21 new)
- South Carolina Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (63 total, 9 new)
- Tennessee Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (141 total, 54 new)
- Texas Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (158 total, 44 new)
- Virginia Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (101 total, 27 new)
- West Virginia Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (79 total, 35 new)
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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