
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:
- 27 Ways to Find Ancestor Birth Information
- 22 Ways to Find Ancestors Marriage Information
- 21 Ways to Find Ancestors Death Information
The lists below contain links to specific birth, marriage, and death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the region:
Alaska
- Free Online Alaska Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Alaska Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Alaska Marriage Records and Indexes
Arizona
- Free Online Arizona Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Arizona Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Arizona Marriage Records and Indexes
California
- Free Online California Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online California Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online California Marriage Records and Indexes
Colorado
- Free Online Colorado Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Colorado Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Colorado Marriage Records and Indexes
Hawaii
- Free Online Hawaii Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Hawaii Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Hawaii Marriage Records and Indexes
Idaho
- Free Online Idaho Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Idaho Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Idaho Marriage Records and Indexes
Montana
- Free Online Montana Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Montana Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Montana Marriage Records and Indexes
Nevada
- Free Online Nevada Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Nevada Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Nevada Marriage Records and Indexes
New Mexico
- Free Online New Mexico Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Mexico Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Mexico Marriage Records and Indexes
Oregon
- Free Online Oregon Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Oregon Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Oregon Marriage Records and Indexes
Utah
- Free Online Utah Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Utah Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Utah Marriage Records and Indexes
Washington
- Free Online Washington Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Washington Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Washington Marriage Records and Indexes
Wyoming
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!