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 Oklahoma.
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
Oklahoma
- Adair County Local Registrar's Death Records, 1908-1968
- Adair County Marriage Applications, 1907-1957
- Adair County Marriage Records, 1907-2016
- Alfalfa County Marriage Records, 1907-1951; Index, 1907-1982
- Atoka County Marriage Records 1892, 1897-1907
- Atoka County Marriage Records 1897-1931 Marriage Index, 1897-1971
- Beckham County Marriages 1907-1929
- Beckham County Marriage Records, Beckham County, Oklahoma, 1907-1951
- Beckham County Minister's Records 1908-1926
- Blaine County Miscellaneous Records 1891-1929
- Blaine County,Marriage Records 1892-1908
- Bosque County, Texas Marriage Index 1860 - 1928
- Bryan County Marriage Records, 1902-1951; Indexes, 1907-1958
- Caddo County Marriages
- Caddo County Marriage Records, 1901-1952; Index, 1901-1993
- Carter County Marriage Record Index, 1907-1909
- Carter County Marriage Records, 1895-1907
- Carter County Marriage Records, 1907-1934
- Cherokee County Marriage Records, 1907-1929; Marriage Index, 1907-1980
- Chickasaw Nation Marriage Index 1885 - 1907
- Choctaw County Marriages Index
- Choctaw County Marriage Records 1892-1951; Index, 1892-1998
- Choctaw Nation Marriage Index 1890 - 1907
- Cimarron County Marriage Records, 1908-1959 ; Index, 1908-1996
- Cleveland County Marriage Index 1895 - 1901
- Cleveland County Coroner's post-mortem Records, 1893-1903
- Cleveland County Marriage Records, 1867-1952
- Coal County Marriage Records, 1907-1933
- Comanche County Native American Death and Obituary Index
- Comanche County Marriage Records, 1901-1951
- Cotton County Marriage Records, 1912-1952 ; Index, 1912-1998
- Craig County Births and Deaths 1908-1912
- Craig County Marriage Records, 1902-1952
- Creek County Marriage Index
- Custer County Marriage licenses, 1901-1945, Marriage Consents 1940-1944
- Custer County Marriage Records, 1894-1953
- Day County Marriages
- Day County Marriages Index
- Delaware County Marriage Records, 1911-1956, 1911-1963
- Department of Health Birth Index
- Department of Health Death Index
- Dewey County Divorce Cases, 1894-1926; Index, 1894-1926
- Dewey County Marriage Records, 1893-1958
- Durant, Indian Territory, Some Marriages 1902-1903
- Ellis County Marriages, 1892-1952; General Index, 1892-1990
- Ellis County Vital Statistics, 1957-1990
- Garfield County Marriage Records, 1893-1930
- Garvin County Marriage Index 1907 - 1929
- Garvin County Marriages
- Garvin County Marriage Records, 1907-1929
- Garvin County Marriage Records, 1907-1929
- Grady County Marriage Records, 1907-1929
- Grant County Marriages, 1895–1929
- Greer County Births and Deaths, 1912-1918
- Greer County Death Indexes 1912-1918
- Greer County Marriage Index from Newspapers 1898-1906
- Greer County Marriage Licenses Index
- Greer County Marriages
- Greer County Marriage Records, 1901-1993; Index, 1901-1993
- Harmon County Death Records (Harmon County, Oklahoma), 1924-1973
- Harmon County Marriage Records (Harmon County, Oklahoma), 1909-1970
- Harper County Marriage Records, 1907-1983
- Haskell County Marriage Records, 1907-1931
- Houston County, Texas Marriage Index 1882 - 1917
- Hughes County Marriage License Index
- Hughes County Marriage Records, 1907-1955 ; General Index to Marriage Licenses, 1907-2000 ; Marriage License Card Index, 1908-1915 ; General Index to Marriage Records, 1907-1969
- Indian Archives Collection, Marriages 1841–1927
- Jackson County Marriage Indexes
- Jackson County Marriage Records, 1907-1951; Index to Marriages, 1907-1946
- Jefferson County Marriage Records, 1907-1932; Index, 1907-1927
- Kaw Reservation Register of Vital Statistics 1931-1951
- Kay County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Kay County Marriages
- Kay County Marriage Records (Kay County, Oklahoma), 1929-1951
- Kay County Marriage Records, 1893-1929; Marriage Index, 1893-1964
- Kingfisher County Marriages
- Kingfisher County Marriage Records, 1900-1954 ; Marriage Index, 1900-1978
- Kiowa County Early Marriage Record
- Kiowa Indian Agency Records, 1919
- Kiowa, Comanche, Apache & Ft. Sill Apache Indian Vital Records at Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, 1924-1937
- Latimer County Applications for Marriage Licenses, 1929-1950; Index, ca. 1929-1950
- Latimer County Marriage Record, 1907-1931; Index, 1907-1979
- Latimer County Marriage Records, 1906-1907
- LeFlore County Marriage Index 1907 - 1910
- LeFlore County Marriage Indexes
- Lincoln County Marriages 1896-1961
- Lincoln County Marriage Records, 1891-1953
- Lincoln County Oklahoma, Lincoln County Miscellaneous Records, 1891-1925; Indexes, 1892-1921
- Logan County Marriage Index
- Logan County Marriage Record Index, 1890-1980
- Logan County Marriage Records, 1908-1931
- Logan County Marriage Records, June 1890-July 1931
- Major County Marriages, 1907-1928; Index to Marriages, 1907-1991
- Marriage Records 1907-1945
- Marshall County Marriage Records, 1907-1956
- Mayes County Deaths
- Mayes County Marriage Records, 1902-1931; General Index to Marriage Records, 1907-1953
- McClain County Marriage Index 1907 - 1929
- McClain County Justice of the Peace Marriage Books, 1909-1912
- McClain County Marriage Records, 1895-1953
- McCurtain County Marriage Licenses 1924-1950
- McCurtain County Marriage Records (McCurtain County, Oklahoma), 1907-1954
- McIntosh County Marriages
- McIntosh County Marriage Records, 1907-1929
- Melba Hall County Marriage Records, 1897-1930
- Miami, Oklahoma, Miami Daily Record-Herald and District Daily News 1916-1922 Vital Records Index
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Miscellaneous Oklahoma Marriages, by County
- Muskogee County Funeral Home Indexes (includes death dates)
- Muskogee County Marriages
- Muskogee County Marriage Records, 1890-1907; Index, 1890-1907
- Muskogee County Marriage Records, 1907-1951; Index, 1907-1976
- Native American Death and Obituary Index
- Noble County Marriage Records, 1893-1953; Index, 1893-1971
- Norman Transcript Newspaper Clipping Collection of Births, Deaths, Reunions and Marriages 1940-1941
- Nowata County Marriages
- Nowata County Marriage Records (Nowata County, Oklahoma), 1907-1952
- Okfuskee County Marriage Indexes
- Okfuskee County Birth and Death Records, 1909-1922
- Okfuskee County Marriage Index, 1907-1981; Marriage Records, 1907-1929
- Oklahoma City Deaths (from City Directories)
- Oklahoma County Marriages, 1889–1951
- Oklahoma County Index of Foreign Birth Certificates 1895-2002
- Oklahoma County Marriage Records, 1890-1951; Index, 1889-1953
- Oklahoma Explore Birth Index
- Oklahoma Explore Death Index
- Oklahoma Historical Society - Marriage Records
- Oklahoma Marriages, 1870-1930
- Oklahoma, Church Marriages, 1852-1948
- Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995
- Oklahoma, School Records, 1895-1936 (includes birth dates)
- Okmulgee County Marriage Records, 1907-1929 ; Marriage Index, 1907-1940
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Osage County Marriage Records, 1909-2017
- Ottawa County Fragments of extinct county newspapers, 1904-1949 : Newspapers Vital Statistics Index
- Ottawa County Marriages
- Ottawa County Miami News Record Vital Statistics Index
- Ottawa county Marriage Records (Ottawa County, Oklahoma), 1907-1952 ; Index, 1907-1958
- Ottawa County Marriage Records 1907-1929
- Ottawa County, Indian Territory Early Newspapers Index: Fairland, Picher, Quapaw and Wyandotte 1895-1934
- Ottawa County, Miami Oklahoma News-Record Newspapers Vital Statistics Index
- Pawnee, Kaw, Ponca, Otoe, and Tonkawa Indian Tribes Register of Births and Deaths 1915-1929
- Payne County Marriage Index
- Payne County Indian Marriage Records, ca. 1898-1916
- Payne County Marriage Records, 1894-1929 ; Indexes to Marriage Records, 1894-1976
- Picher, Tri-State Tribune Newspaper Vital Records Index 1939-1944
- Pittsburg County Death Index
- Pittsburg County Marriage Records, 1890-1907
- Pittsburg County Marriage Records, 1907-1951
- Pontotoc County Marriages
- Pontotoc County Marriage Records, 1907-1930 ; Index, 1907-1982
- Pottawatomie County Marriage Records (Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma), 1892-1952; Indexes, 1892-1980
- Pushmataha County Marriage Indexes
- Pushmataha County Marriage Record 1907-1933
- Roger Mills County Marriages Index
- Roger Mills County Marriage Records 1893-1963
- Roger Mills County Miscellaneous Records 1892-1922
- Rogers County Marriage Records, 1907-1957
- Seminole County Marriage Index
- Seminole County Marriage Records, 1907-1960
- Seminole County Marriage Records, 1931-1953
- South McAlester, Indian Territory Marriage Records
- Stephens County Marriage Index 1907 - 1912
- Stephens County Marriages
- Stephens County Birth Records
- Stephens County Death Records 1957-1965
- Stroud Birth Index 1899-1930
- Texas County Marriage Indexes
- Texas County Marriage Records, 1907-1968; Marriage Index, 1907-2000
- Tillman County Birth and Death Records,1917
- Tillman County Marriage Records, 1907-1954; Index to Marriage Records, 1907-1996
- Tonkawa Tribe Records, 1895-1952
- Tulsa County Marriage Index 1907-1930
- Tulsa County Miscellaneous Marriages
- Tulsa County Marriage Records, 1907-1977
- Tulsa Newspaper Death Index
- Wagoner County Marriage Records, 1907-1930
- Washington County Death Index
- Washington County Marriage Records, 1907-1929 ; Index, 1907-1956
- Washita County Marriage Records, 1892-1953; General Index to Marriage Licenses, 1892-2001
- Western District Federal Court Records Collection Marriage licenses, 1903–07
- Wichita, Caddo, Delaware Indians Vital Records at Kiowa Agency, Oklahoma Territory, 1926-1935
- Woods County Births, Deaths and Marriages from the Ames Enterprise, 1901-1905
- Woods County Marriage Records, 1893-1954; General Index, 1893-1977
- Woods County Marriage Records, 1894-1907
- Woodward County Marriage Records, 1893-1954; Index, 1896-1958
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Records page.
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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