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 are specific birth, marriage, and death indexes and record collections that are available for free online.
Note: Some links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. 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. To take full advantage make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.
Note: There are obituary record indexes included, but are only listed if the index contains the death date, not just the date of publication of the obituary.
(Updated November 2022)
General Canada
- Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959
- Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955
- Canada Marriages, 1661-1949
- Canada Miscellaneous Marriages
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police Obituary Card Index and Notices, 1876-2007
New Brunswick
- Atlantic Canada Genealogy Project – Vitals Data
- Bathurst Deaths and Burials at St. George’s Anglican Church
- Brenan’s Funeral Home Records, Saint John
- Campbello Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Carleton County Anglican Church Records
- Carleton County Death Index 1888-1919
- Carleton County Marriage Records 1832-1887
- Charlotte County, St. Mark’s Anglican Church, Marriages
- Christ Church, New Brunswick, Marriage Records, 1758-1778
- County Council Marriage Records: Charlotte
- County Council Marriage Records: Gloucester
- County Council Marriage Records: Kent
- County Council Marriage Records: Restigouche
- County Council Marriage Records: Sunbury
- Daniel F Johnson’s New Brunswick Newspaper Vital Statistics
- Death Registration of Soldiers, 1941-1947
- Early County Marriage Records PANB RS159
- Early Northumberland County Marriages 1815-1820
- Fredericton Burial Permit Listing – Newspaper Death Announcements
- Fredericton Daily Gleaner – Deaths 1902-1903; 1908-1911; 1915-1919
- Gagetown Anglican Marriage Index 1786 – 1899
- Gagetown, United Church of Canada. Gagetown-Grand Lake Pastoral Charge, Church Records, 1854-1985
- Gloucester County Marriage Index 1841-1860
- Grand Falls, Assumption Parish Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths
- Grand Manan Marriage Records
- Harvey, Presbyterian Church in Canada, Church Records, 1810-1956
- Kent County Marriages pre-1845
- Kent, Eglise Catholique. Saint-Louis-des-Français, Registres Paroissiaux, 1800-1870
- Misc. New Brunswick Deaths 1878-1886
- Moncton, United Church of Canada. Central United Church, Church Records, 1836-1983
- New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899
- New Brunswick, Certificates of Registration of Deaths, 1920-1938
- New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920
- New Brunswick, County Registers of births : 1888 series; pre-1920 County book series; and index, 1801-1899
- New Brunswick, County Registers of Births, ca. 1812-1919
- New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1920-1934
- New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1935-1938
- New Brunswick, Index to County Birth Registers
- New Brunswick, Index to County Death Registers
- New Brunswick, Index to Death Certificates
- New Brunswick, Index to Death Registration of Soldiers, 1941-1947
- New Brunswick, Index to Late Registration of Births
- New Brunswick, Index to Late Registration of Births: County Series
- New Brunswick, Index to Late Registration of Marriages
- New Brunswick, Index to Marriage Bonds, 1810-1932
- New Brunswick, Index to Marriages
- New Brunswick, Index to Marriages (RS141B7)
- New Brunswick, Index to Provincial Registrations of Births
- New Brunswick, Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899
- New Brunswick, Marriage Bonds 1810-1932
- New Brunswick, Marriage Bonds, 1810-1932; Index, 1810-1932
- New Brunswick, Marriage Index 1911-1919
- New Brunswick, Marriage Registers, 1789-1889
- New Brunswick, Marriage Registers, 1792-1889
- New Brunswick, Obituaries and Death Notices Collection (scroll to top)
- New Brunswick, Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938
- New Brunswick, Provincial Marriages 1789-1950
- New Brunswick, Provincial Registers of Births, 1888-1895
- New Brunswick, Provincial Registers of Deaths, 1888-1895; County Registers of Deaths, 1888-1919
- New Brunswick, Provincial Registers of Marriages, 1888-1895; County Registers of Marriages, 1888-1921
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births, 1869-1905, 1906 (A-Be); Late Registrations, 1810-1905; Indexes to Late Registrations, 1900-1904
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Marriages and Late Registrations, 1920-1950
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Marriages, 1887-1919
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Marriages, 1887-1919
- New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Marriages, 1920-1950; late registration of marriages, 1920-1945
- Pennfield, Church of England in Canada. Christ Church, Church Records, 1822-1901, 1912
- Provincial Archives of New Brunswick Births, Marriages, and Deaths
- Provincial Archives, Cumulative index marriages: extracted from RS141–Vital Statistics Branch Records
- Provincial Returns of Deaths
- Queens County Marriage Records, Registers 1812-1887
- Registers of Ste-Anne de Restigouche, Québec, 1842-1867
- Restigouche County Death Index
- Restigouche County Deaths and Obituaries (Transcriptions)
- Restigouche County, Marriage Register, 1838-1878
- Rev. Amos Hayward Marriage Index 1878-1905
- Richibucto Newspaper Birth, Marriage, and Death Extracts
- Saint Croix Newspaper Birth and Death Extracts 1865-1945
- Saint John Burial Permits, 1889-1919
- Saint John Burial Permits, 1889-1919
- Saint John Globe Deaths 1897-1926
- Saint John, Catholic Church. Saint Malachy, Church Records, 1821-1858
- Saint John, Records, 1800’s
- Scoudouc, Eglise Catholique. Saint-Jacques, Registre de la Paroisse St-Jacques de Scoudouc, Catholique, 1850-1870, baptêmes, 1850-1870, Mariages, 1852-1870, Sépultures, 1855-1870
- Shediac Cape, Church of England in Canada. St. Martin in the Woods, Church Records (typescripts and photocopies), 1825-1835
- Sheffield Township Births and Deaths – 1767-1845
- Sheffield, The Records of the Town
- Shemogue, Eglise Catholique. Sainte-Thérèse-d’Avila (Shemogue); Eglise Catholique. Sainte-Thérèse-d’Avila (Cap-Pelé) Registre de la Paroisse St-Timothée de Shemogue, Catholique, 1813-1899, baptêmes et Sépultures, 1813-1899, Mariages, 1818-1899
- St. George Vital Statistics Indexes
- Sunbury County Marriage Indexes
- Sunbury County Marriage Record 1766-1888
- Westmorland, Register of Marriages, 1790-1835
- York County Church Baptisms and Marriages
- York County Marriage Record Books A to E (1812-1889)
Check out the links for other provinces on the BMD Records page.
For all Free New Brunswick Links, click on the category of interest:
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