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• Ancestry.com - England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 $

  Original source: General Register Office: Society of Friends' Registers, Notes and Certificates of Births, Marriages and Burials. Records of the General Register Office, Government Social Survey Department, and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, RG 6. The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, England. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Birth and Baptism Records in the UK

  An introduction to birth and baptism records.

• BMD Index - Birth, Marriage & Death Index

  Pay-per-view online searchable index to the birth, marriage & death registrations in England and Wales.

• BMD Registers: The Official Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial BMDs Service $

  Search-for-free, pay-for-results online searchable database of the English & Welsh non-parochial & nonconformist registers 1567-1840. Contains 5,000 registers of a huge variety of nonconformist congregations, including Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Protestant Dissenters & Independents. There are also registers from a small number of Roman Catholic communities. From the UK National Archives.

• Burial and Death Records in the UK

  An introduction to burial and death records.

• Civil Registration

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• Civil Registration: Vital Change UK Government White Paper Proposals

  News and editorials on the government's proposed changes.

• Discover English Parish Registers

  A book for sale. English parish records are a fundamental source for English research. In this detailed guide, family historian Paul Milner explains how and why the records were created, beginning in 1538, what the records look like and what information they contain.

• Don't be fooled by unofficial certificate websites - Press releases - Inside Government - GOV.UK

  People ordering birth, death and marriage certificates were warned by the Registrar General not to be fooled by unofficial websites, after an advertising watchdog investigation.

• Don't be fooled by unofficial certificate websites | Home Office

  People ordering birth, death and marriage certificates were warned by the Registrar General not to be fooled by unofficial websites, after an advertising watchdog investigation.

• DustyDocs - Links to Free Websites in the British Isles Containing Parish Records ^FREE

  Dustydocs is a 'web-linking site' of English baptisms, marriages and burials records for the years 1538 to 1900. The information is sourced from freely available church BMB records and validated user contributions. Searches can be conducted using family names and/or locations.

• e-petitions - Research Copies for Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates for Genealogical Research Purposes

  If a UK citizen, please sign the e-petition. Also copy and paste this to your status updates on Facebook as 100,000 signatures are needed to get this read in parliament. Please don't create a new e-petition just sign this one, to get to the 100,000 signature goal: Research Copies for Birth, Marriage & Death Certificates for Genealogical Research Purposes. Under current legislation, the GRO can only "release this information by means of the issue of a paper certified copy Cert of the relevant entry, and payment of the relevant statutory fee for a certified copy." We request that this House enacts legislation to allow the General Register Office of England and Wales the ability to issue "uncertified" research copies of birth, marriage and death certs - with a notice on the copies that they are uncertified, and have no legal authority - and that these may be obtained at a much lower cost than the current

• England and Wales: Online Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes

  Web Sites for Genealogists - An Australian gateway site for tracing your family history by Cora Num.

• Family Research Link

  Pay-for-use online searchable index of civil registration indexes for England & Wales from 1837 to the present. Includes scanned images of the index entries for births, marriages & deaths.

• FamilySearch - Great Britain Births and Baptisms, 1571-1977 ^FREE

  Index to selected Great Britain births and baptisms. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. This collection contains 26,670 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

• FamilySearch - Great Britain Deaths and Burials, 1778-1988 ^FREE

  Index to selected Great Britain deaths and burials. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. This collection contains 69,278 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

• FamilySearch - Great Britain Marriages, 1797-1988 ^FREE

  Index to selected Great Britain marriages. Only a few localities are included and the time period varies by locality. This collection contains 22,036 records. Due to privacy laws, recent records may not be displayed. The year range represents most of the records. A few records may be earlier or later.

• Findmypast $

  Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Join Findmypast and you

• Free British Isles Birth Records Information

  Guide to free online birth and baptismal records, indexes, and transcription sites for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

• FreeBMD

  An ongoing project, the aim of which is to transcribe the Civil Registration index of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales, and to provide free Internet access to the transcribed records.