Civil registration

England and Wales

[67] GOV.UK: Certification, register offices, changes of name or gender - new page on replacement service for Directgov
[67] directgov: Registering life events (redirect) - directgov now closed
[68] GRO: Certificate ordering service
[68] Identity & Passport Service: Civil registration - new pages on main gov.uk site
[68] Genuki: Civil registration
[68] Registration Certificate Tutorials
[68] Kimberley Powell: Civil Registration in England and Wales. How to Get Birth, Death & Marriage Certificates

Digitization of certificates

[69] Identity & Passport Service: Modernising civil registration

The GRO indexes

FreeBMD

Commercial indexes

Local BMD projects

Register offices and registration districts

[76] Genuki: Registration Districts In England And Wales (1837-1974)
[76] Genuki: GRO Indexes Registration Districts
[76] Genuki: Index Of Places In England And Wales
[76] Genuki: GRO Indexes Registration Districts: Reference Numbers
[76] Genuki: Local Register Offices In England And Wales
[76] GRO: Index of County Information

Alternatives to civil registration records

[77] Marriage Locator

Scotland

Note: All civil registration information has now moved from the Genereal Register Office site to that of National Records of Scotland.
[77] National Records of Scotland
[77] General Register Office (Scotland)
[77] Genuki: Introduction to Scottish Family History
[77] GRO(S): Family Records - replaced by Birth, Death and Marriage Records
[77] NRS: Register Offices - replaced by Registration Districts (the Excel spreadsheet is no longer available)
[77] GRO(S): List of Parishes and Registration Districts
[78] ScotlandsPeople: Availability
[78] NRS: How to Order a Certificate (Also Known as an Official Extract)
[79] The Scottish Way of Birth and Death

Ireland

[79] The General Register Office - now integrated into the Department of Social Protection website
[79] nidirect: General Register Office (NI) - replaced by Births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships
[79] Certificates.ie
[79] nidirect: Order a birth certificate - links to pages for ordering other certificates are at the bottom of the page
[79] Poor Law Unions/Registration Districts by County
[79] Ireland Registrar's Districts and corresponding counties
[79] Ireland Civil Registration Registrars' Districts
[79] From-Ireland: Civil Registration
[79] From-Ireland:
[79] A Guide to the General Register Office of Ireland

Digitization

[80] GRO Ireland: Bringing Civil Registration into the 21st Century (ARCHIVED)
[80] Dáil Éireann: Written answers, 14 September 2011
[80] Genealogical Society of Ireland: Civil Registration in Ireland
[80] Council of Irish Genealogical Organisations: Current Campaigns - General Register Office
[80] Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency: Registrar General Annual Report 2010

Indexes

[81] FamilySearch
[81] Ancestry: Ireland, Civil Registration Marriages Index, 1845-1958
[81] Findmypast Ireland

Local transcripts

[81] Waterford County Library: Death Registers
[81] From-Ireland: Records
[82] From-Ireland: Counties - follow links from home page to individual county pages
[82] County Cork Civil Registrations
[82] Ireland CMC Genealogy Record Project

Offshore

[82] Isle of Man: Civil Registry
[82] ManxBMD
[82] ManxBMD
[82] Jersey: Superintendent Registrar
[82] States of Guernsey
[82] A guide to Civil and Parish Registersand Census recordsat the Priaulx Library
[82] RootsWeb: Channel Islands Genealogy

Certificate exchanges

[83] GRO: Reproduction of Birth, Death and Marriage Certificates - revised document, May 20134
[83] BMD Certificate Exchange
[83] Scotland BDM Exchange
[83] Ireland Births or baptisms, Deaths & Marriages Exchange

Overseas

[83] GenWeb: Country Index - now on home page
[83] Cyndi's List
[83] Cyndi's List: Births & Baptisms
[83] Cyndi's List: Death Records
[83] Cyndi's List: Marriages & Divorce
[83] NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages: Family History Search
[83] British Columbia Archives: Vital Events Indexes
[83] Cyndi's List: U.S. Vital Records

This page was last revised by Peter Christian, February 11 2019.
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