
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:
Delaware
- Free Online Delaware Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Delaware Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Delaware Marriage Records and Indexes
District of Columbia
- Free Online District of Columbia Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online District of Columbia Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online District of Columbia Marriage Records and Indexes
Maryland
- Free Online Maryland Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Maryland Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Maryland Marriage Records and Indexes
New Jersey
- Free Online New Jersey Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Jersey Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Jersey Marriage Records and Indexes
New York
- Free Online New York Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online New York Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online New York Marriage Records and Indexes
Pennsylvania
- Free Online Pennsylvania Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Pennsylvania Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Pennsylvania Marriage Records and Indexes
Virginia
- Free Online Virginia Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Virginia Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Virginia Marriage Records and Indexes
West Virginia
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!