where could i find a record of births, deaths, and marraige certificates?

Question

i am trying to do my family tree and have gone as far as i can on information from family. is there a way a viewing records of certificates. how would i go about it?

Answer 1

Hey lolljayne,

Ah, the expense of paying for Vital Records. If you use a web site, it will not be proof that the date is correct, or that you have the right links from a parent to a child. So, just a word of caution. You can get believable hints from web sites, and one of the best is Family Search.com. They get information from many sources. Some of those sources are questionable, that is taking a family tree from a contributor without proof of any of the documentation. That can make your work invalid.

You can get Vital Records (VR) for most people in most locations by following the ordering instructions at their web site. Most municipal Vital Records offices have web sites. A county records office will charge you less for a VR (BMD), than a STATE site. So, you can get records at better prices if you have that 'believable" information first, and use it to nail down the location of where the VRs are.

To find a VR site, use YAHOO SEARCH (seems to get better hits), and type in "VITAL RECORD ", that will give you numerious sites, so pick the one that is official for the county, city, town, municipal VRs.

Then just follow their instructions. I know this takes time and money, but it is the BEST way to get the BMD records you want.

That said, here are some fair sites for the same purpose.

Answer 2

In general, what you are looking to find is "one stop shopping" genealogy. No.. all these records are not in one place. The process of finding the pieces of your history, have to be broken down, into individual persons, and specific places.
Grandma Jones might have been born in Arkansas, married in Louisiana, and died in Michigan. EACH place has different rules or availabilty for different types of records. In order to find what you need, you have to be able to specify a locality and a time frame, even if approximate.
Birth and death certificates, FOR THE MOST PART, are only "products" of the 1900's, and generally, you cannot see these online. They frequently are restricted, as to who can order them. Of course, don't confuse that with a "record".. that might include something like an obituary that includes when and where someone was born, the parents and other family, etc.
So.. sit down with what you HAVE, and analyse one item that you need to verify, and focus on how to locate that. Yes it sounds tedious ("my gosh, one piece at a time??").. but each one that you find, opens up how the process works, and quickly becomes 2nd nature.
One great site is www.rootsweb.com, that has many family files submitted, and you may well find your relatives there. But what I am trying to do, is explain the steps needed when someone has NOT researched your relatives, and you are going to be the one to discover it all.

Answer 3

the city and the county is must be known. www.usgenweb. Again you need a city and a county and state. If your unsure of the county get a map. If its before the 1900's check with the The church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints Library.
www.lds.org. click on family history centers and find the one that is located in your area. The librarian can help you with books or cds that have the county. County lines changed with time. [e-mail]

Answer 4

www.ancestry.co.uk
www.ancestry.com
www.familysearch.org/eng
You can search the free bmd records on both the ancestry sites, I don't know whether they still have a free trial on offer. You can have a look through the indices but you wont be able to download any of the other images. With familysearch it is all free it's really good for the old stuff, it's run by the Mormons and it is excellent, I love it. .If you need a hand to get started you can email me with your details I have membership to both sites. (the world collection) I do not charge anything for my help, I just love to help if I can, I am a genealogy student. good luck anyway [e-mail]

Answer 5

Sorry, mwyattjnr, British courthouses have not got something to do with dying certificates! in case you may get to between the bigger libraries, or have a chum who subscribes to Ancestry uk, you could hint the English dying, and get the the excellent option reference numbers. you could then get on line to the national documents, and order a certificates via submit.That costs £7, and takes some week. you're able to do a speedy-music order, in spite of if it is plenty extra high priced. i might think of, yet don't recognize, that the comparable applies to Scotland. in case you order from national documents without the reference extensive style, and that they should do the hunt, it costs extra. in case you order from a Registry workplace, it could purely be on the single the place the dying became registered. on line you could purely seem on the dying indexes. you could no longer see the actual certificates.

Answer 6

www.ancestry.co.uk is worth a look or www.ancestry.com if you're looking more for American records.

Answer 7

Try these:

http://www.1901censusonline.com/
http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/
http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/

Answer 8

www.familysearch.org its all there, and if its not you can add them in. its beautiful.