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 Hawaii.
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
Hawaii
- Hawaii Births and Christenings, 1852-1933
- Hawaii County Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Hawaii County Obituaries and Death Information
- Hawaii Deaths and Burials, 1862-1919
- Hawaii Deaths and Transcribed Obituaries 1980-present
- Hawaii Death Register Indexes (by island), 1896-1903
- Hawaii Genealogy Indexes
- Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1922
- Hawaii Marriages, 1826-1954
- Hawaii Index to Archives of Marriage Records, 1826-1910
- Hawaii State Archives, Vital Statistics Collection
- Hawaiian Electronic Library Marriages and Deaths 1826-1929
- Hawaiian Newspaper Index to Births pre-1950
- Honolulu County Births
- Honolulu County Death and Obituary Index
- Honolulu County Marriages
- Island Newspaper Deaths and Transcribed Obituaries 1989-2013
- Island of Hawaii Registers of Birth, Marriage and Death, 1841-1896
- Island of Hawaii Reports of Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1851-1896
- Island of Hawaii Marriage Certificates and Licenses, 1846-1900
- Island of Hawaii Marriage Register of Charles Frederick Hart, 1863-1865
- Island of Hawaii Marriage Registers of Rev. L. Lyons, 1833-1886
- Island of Hawaii Marriage Register of Rev. D. Baldwin, 1832-1835
- Island of Hawaii Marriage Register of Rev. Cowan, 1837-1879
- Island of Hawaii Marriage Register of Rev. Titus Coan, 1837-1882
- Island of Hawaii Register of Marriages performed by G. W. A. Hapai, 1887-1896
- Island of Hawaii Register of Marriages performed by Rev. O. H. Gulick, 1862-1869
- Island of Hawaii Register of Marriages performed by Rev. Elias Bond, North Kohola, 1852-1887
- Island of Hawaii Register of Marriages, 1844-1865
- Kauai County Birth Records
- Kauai County Death Records
- Kauai County Marriages
- Kauai County Obituaries and Death Information
- Maui County Birth Records
- Maui County Death Records
- Maui County Marriage Records
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Vital Statistics Collection, 1826-1929 – Maui
- Vital Statistics Collection, 1826-1929 – Oahu
- Vital Statistics Collection, 1826-1929 – Hawaii, Kauai, Molokai, and Niihau
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Records page.
Good Luck and Happy Hunting!
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