Newfoundland and Labrador Birth, Marriage, and Death (BMD) Record Links

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 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). Make sure that you are signed in to FamilySearch in order to make full use of a digitized collection.

Note: There are obituary record indexes included, but they 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

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Avalon South Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Bay Bulls, Catholic Church, Saints Peter and Paul, Parish Registers, 1830-1899
• Bay de Verde District Vital Statistics
• Bay de Verde Parish Records
• Bonavista Bay Parish Records
• Bonavista Bay Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Bonavista District Vital Statistics
• Burgeo-LaPoile District Vital Statistics
• Burin District Vital Statistics
• Burin Peninsula Parish Records
• Burin Peninsula Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Carbonear and Harbour Grace Baptisms and Marriages
• Carbonear District Vital Statistics
• Carbonear Parish Records
• Central Region Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Conception Bay North Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Conception Bay South Vitals
• Ferryland District Vital Statistics
• Ferryland Parish Records
• Ferryland, Catholic Church, Holy Trinity, Parish Registers, 1837-1899
• Fogo District Vital Statistics
• Fortune Bay District Vital Statistics
• Fortune Bay District, Catholic Church, Fortune Bay District, Parish Registers, 1860-1883
• Fortune Bay Parish Records
• Fortune Bay Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Freshwater, Catholic Church, Holy Rosary, Parish Registers, 1835-1899
• Grand Falls District Vital Statistics
• Green Bay District Vital Statistics
• Harbour Grace District Vital Statistics
• Harbour Grace Parish Records
• Harbour Main District Vital Statistics
• Harbour Main Parish Records
• Humber District Vital Statistics
• Labrador District Vital Statistics
• Labrador Parish Records
• Labrador Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Newfoundland and Labrador Parish Records
• Newfoundland Birth Records, 1891-1897 and Delayed Registration Births, 1891-1900
• Newfoundland Church Records, 1793-1945 
• Newfoundland Death Records, 1891-1949
• Newfoundland Deaths and Obituaries (Transcriptions)
• Newfoundland Grand Banks Vital Records
• Newfoundland Marriage Records, 1891-1922
• Newfoundland Miscellaneous Delayed Birth Registrations 1840-1915
• Newfoundland Vital Records, 1840-1949 
• Newfoundland Vital Statistics, 1753-1893
• Newfoundland, Labrador, Church Records, 1840-1876
• Newfoundland, Miscellaneous Delayed Birth Registrations for 1840-1915
• Newfoundland, Registers of Vital Statistics Collection, 1753-1893
• Newfoundland’s West Coast Parish Records
• Northern Peninsula Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Notre Dame Bay Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Notre Dame Bay (Fogo Area Parish Records)
• Placentia and St. Mary’s District Parish Records
• Placentia and St. Mary’s District Vital Statistics
• Placentia Bay Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Placentia West District Vital Statistics
• Placentia, Catholic Sacred Heart Parish and Circuit, Parish Registers, 1822-1944
• Port de Grave District Vital Statistics
• Port De Grave Parish Records
• Portugal Cove, Catholic Church, Holy Rosary, Parish Registers , 1844-1899
• Salmonier, Catholic Church, Saint Joseph, Parish Register, 1874-1899
• South Coast Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• South West Coast Parish Records
• Spaniard’s Bay, Church of England in Canada. Holy Redeemer, Church Records, 1841-1953
• St. Barbe District Vital Statistics
• St. Barbe Parish Records
• St. George’s District Vital Statistics
• St. John’s City District Vital Statistics
• St. John’s East District Vital Statistics
• St. John’s Main City Parish Records
• St. John’s West District Vital Statistics
• St. John’s, Catholic Church, Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, Parish Registers, 1793-1899
• St. John’s, Catholic Church, Saint Patrick, Parish Registers, 1872-1899
• Surnames from Births, Deaths and Marriages in Newfoundland Newspapers, 1810-1890
• Torbay, Catholic Holy Trinity Parish, Parish Registers, 1845-Feb. 1900
• Trinity Bay District Vital Statistics
• Trinity Bay Parish Records
• Trinity Bay Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• Trinity District, Surrogate Court Records, 1815-1825
• Twillingate District Parish Records
• Twillingate District Vital Statistics
• Waterford, Church of Ireland. St. Patrick’s Church, Extracts of Baptisms, 1756-1770
• West Coast Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)
• White Bay District Vital Statistics
• White Bay Region Parish and Vital Indexes (Select District)

Check out the links for other provinces on the BMD Records page.