
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:
Connecticut
- Free Online Connecticut Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Connecticut Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Connecticut Marriage Records and Indexes
Maine
- Free Online Maine Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Maine Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Maine Marriage Records and Indexes
Massachusetts
- Free Online Massachusetts Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Massachusetts Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Massachusetts Marriage Records and Indexes
New Hampshire
- Free Online New Hampshire Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Hampshire Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online New Hampshire Marriage Records and Indexes
Rhode Island
- Free Online Rhode Island Birth Records and Indexes
- Free Online Rhode Island Death Records and Indexes
- Free Online Rhode Island Marriage Records and Indexes
Vermont
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
2 replies on “7,880 Free Online New England States Birth, Marriage, and Death Record Collections”
How about records for more southern states? I’m interested in West Virginia.
Go to https://theancestorhunt.com/bmd-links.html and pick any state that you like. In the future, go to Resources in the menu at the top of the page and you can select any genealogy category and then any state that you like.