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 Mississippi.
Note 1: Many of the links listed below take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. In many cases there is a link to the digital collection in the middle of the page, but also near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections' images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. Please also note that I have listed below only BMD databases that are accessible digitally from your computer (or tablet/phone)
Note 2: I have included links to Free Ancestry records and indexes. You do not need a subscription, but do need an Ancestry account. Without a subscription you can view indexes. If there is an image associated with a record, in most cases you will need a subscription, but the index does include very usable information.
(Updated May, 2020; 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
Mississippi
- Adams County Deaths
- Adams County Marriages
- Adams County/Natchez Birth Returns 1910-1921
- Alcorn County Death Records
- Alcorn County Marriages
- Amite County Marriages
- Black Marriages of Tate County, 1873-1900
- Bolivar County Marriages
- Brookhaven Death Index
- Calhoun County Marriages
- Carroll County Marriage Records
- Carroll County Marriages
- Chickasaw County Marriage Index
- Choctaw County Marriage Index
- Claiborne County Marriages
- Coahoma County Marriage Records, 1904-1909
- Coahoma County Marriage Records, second district, 1910-19127
- Copiah County Marriages
- Copiah County Marriage Records 1823-1843
- Copiah County Marriage Records 1844-1859
- Covington County Marriages
- DeSoto County Marriage License Index
- DeSoto County Marriages
- Forest County Marriages
- Forrest County Deaths and Marriages Indexes
- Franklin County Marriages
- George County Marriage Indexes
- Greene County Marriage Indexes
- Greene County Marriages
- Grenada County Marriages
- Hancock County Death Index
- Hancock County Marriage Index (1849 - 1956)
- Hancock County Marriage Indexes
- Hancock County Earliest Marriage Records, 1853-1865
- Harrison County Marriages Index
- Harrison County Marriages 1841-1899
- Hinds County Marriages
- Hinds County Marriage Records, 1823-1848
- Holmes County Marriage Index
- Itawamba Marriage Indexes
- Jackson County Marriage Records and Indexes
- Jackson County Marriages
- Jasper County Deaths
- Jefferson County Marriage Project Indexes
- Jefferson County Marriages
- Jones County Marriages
- Kemper County Births pre-1900
- Kemper County Marriages
- Lafayette County Marriage Licenses
- Lafayette County Marriage Bonds 1848-1881
- Lamar County Marriages
- Lauderdale County Marriage Archives
- Lauderdale County Marriages
- Lawrence County Death Index
- Lawrence County Marriage Records
- Lawrence County Marriages
- Lawrence County Marriage Records 1818-1838
- Lee County Marriages
- Leflore County Marriages
- Lincoln County Marriage Indexes
- Lowndes County Marriage Index
- Lowndes County Marriages
- Madison County Marriages
- Madison County Marriage Records Book "E" 1830-1836 and Book "F" 1835-1847
- Madison County Marriage Records, 1830-1954, 1912-1950
- Madison County Marriage Records, Madison County, Mississippi Territory, 1809-1816, from book I, Probate Office
- Marion County Marriage Indexes
- Marion County Marriages
- Marion County Marriage Records 1812-1860
- Marshall County Deaths and Marriages
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Mississippi Death Records Statewide Index (1912 - 1943)
- Mississippi Federal and State Census Mortality Schedules
- Mississippi Marriage Search
- Mississippi Marriage Indexes - Miscellaneous Counties
- Mississippi Marriages, 1800-1911
- Mississippi Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
- Mississippi Mortality Schedules for 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880
- Monroe County Records
- Montgomery County Marriage Index
- Natchez Births
- Neshoba County Births
- Neshoba County Marriages
- Neshoba County Marriage Records Bride and Groom Index 1877-1907
- Neshoba County, Marriage Records
- Noxubee County Marriages
- Oktibbeha County 1850-1900 Marriages
- Oktibbeha County 1861-1866 Marriages
- Oktibbeha County Marriage Licenses
- Oktibbeha County Chancery Court Vital Records 1880-1920
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Pearl River County Marriages
- Perry County Deaths and Marriages
- Perry County Marriages
- Pike County Marriage Index
- Pike County Marriage License Index
- Pike County Marriages
- Pontotoc County Miscellaneous Marriages
- Pontotoc County Marriage Records, 1902-1914
- Prentiss County Marriage Indexes
- Rankin County Marriages
- Rankin County Marriage Records, 1828-1923
- Scott County Marriage Indexes
- Simpson County Marriages
- Simpson County Marriage Records, 1903-1909
- Smith County Marriage Indexes
- Stone County Marriages
- Tallahatchie County Marriage Indexes
- Tippah County Early Marriages
- Tippah County Marriages, 1858-1979
- Tippah County Marriages 1858-1925
- Tippah County Marriages, 1858-1979
- Tishomingo County Marriage Records, 1900-1909
- Tunica County Marriage Index
- Union County Marriage Indexes
- Walthall County Marriages
- Warren County Marriage Indexes
- Washington County Marriage Index
- Winston County Marriages
- Winston County Marriages, 1834-1880
- Yalobusha County Marriage Records
- Yalobusha County Marriage Records
- Yalobusha County Marriage Records
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Records page.
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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