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 Mid-West states of the U.S. Also included is the total number of BMD record collection links and the added collections from the previous update.
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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 Mid-West states of the U.S. Also included is the total number of BMD record collection links and the added collections from the previous update.
- Illinois Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (85 total, 41 new)
- Indiana Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (140 total, 62 new)
- Iowa Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (83 total, 26 new)
- Kansas Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (63 total, 22 new)
- Michigan Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (89 total, 33 new)
- Minnesota Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (44 total, 15 new)
- Missouri Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (75 total, 41 new)
- Nebraska Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (53 total, 36 new)
- North Dakota Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (26 total, 13 new)
- Ohio Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (83 total, 28 new)
- Oklahoma Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (49 total, 13 new)
- South Dakota Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (24 total, 8 new)
- Wisconsin Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links (81 total, 39 new)
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