Please note that with the publication of the 4th Edition of The Genealogist's Internet in February 2009, the links for the 3rd Edition are no longer being updated.

5. Online Sources: Civil registration

England and Wales

• [049] Family Records Centre - the FRC has now closed
• [049] FamilyRecords: Topics: Births, Marriages and Deaths
• [049] General Register Office
• [050] GRO: Certificate ordering service
• [050] Genuki: Civil Registration
• [050] Registration Certificate Tutorials
• [050] Mark Howells Ordering Birth Registration Certificates from England and Wales
• [050] About.com: Civil Registration in England and Wales

GRO Indexes

• [051] FreeBMD
• [051] FreeBMD: RoosWeb mirror
• [051] FreeBMD: Coverage Charts
• [053] FreeBMD: FreeBMD-News mailing list
• [053] 1837online - now called Findmypast
• [055] BMDindex
• [056] FamilyRelatives

Local BMD projects

• [057] UKBMD
• [057] CheshireBMD
• [057] BathBMD
• [057] LancashireBMD
• [057] NorthWalesBMD
• [057] StaffordshireBMD
• [057] WestMidlandsBMD
• [058] WiltshireBMD
• [058] YorkshireBMD
• [058] CAMDEX
• [058] Darlington
• [058] Durham County Council
• [058] Kent Registration Services
• [058] Tees Valley Indexes
• [058] Warwickshire County BMDs
• [059] Wrexham Marriage Index
• [059] Isle of Wight FHS: BMD index
• [059] Northumberland and Durham FHS: Newcastle Register Office Indexes
• [059] FamilyHistoryOnline
• [059] NortheastBMD

Register offices and registration districts

• [059] Genuki: Registration Districts In England And Wales (1837-1930)
• [060] Genuki: Local Register Offices In England & Wales
• [060] Genuki: Registration Districts In England and Wales (1837-1930)
• [060] Genuki: Gro Indexes Registration Districts
• [060] Genuki: Index Of Places In England And Wales
• [060] General Register Office

Future developments

• [060] Civil Registration: Vital Change
• [061] GRO: Looking Ahead
• [061] FFHS: Government White Paper: Civil Registration - Vital Changes
• [061] FFHS: Government White Paper - Annex C: Access To Bm&D Registration Records And Their Contents
• [061] Society of Genealogists: Civil Registration: Delivering Vital Change. Response from the Society of Genealogists
• [061] FFHS: Response to 'Civil Registration: delivering vital change'
• [061] House of Commons: Minutes Of Evidence Taken Before Regulatory Reform Committee
• [061] FFHS: Letter to the Regulatory Reform Review Committee
• [061] House of Lords Regulatory Reform Committee Report
• [061] House of Commons: Regulatory Reform Committee Report
• [061] FFHS: Report Of House Of Lords Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee
• [061] FFHS: Report Of House Of Commons Regulatory Reform Committee
• [061] DOVE: invitation to tender

Scotland

• [062] General Register Office for Scotland (GROS)
• [062] Genuki: Introduction to Scottish Family History
• [062] GROS: How can GROS help me research my Scottish ancestors
• [062] GROS: List of Registration Offices
• [063] GROS: Birth/Death/Marriage Certificates
• [063] Scottish And LDS Genealogical Reference Information
• [063] GROS: List of Registration Districts
• [063] ScotlandsPeople
• [063] Scots Origins

Ireland

• [064] General Register Office (Republic of Ireland)
• [064] General Register Office (Northern Ireland)
• [064] The National Archives of Ireland: Useful Genealogical Sources: Records of births, marriages and deaths
• [064] GRO (Ireland): Bringing Civil Registration into the 21st Century
• [064] Sean Murphy: A Guide to the General Register Office of Ireland
• [064] Sean Murphy: A Guide to the General Register Office of Ireland: Introduction
• [064] Republic of Ireland: Civil Registration Bill 2003
• [065] Genealogy Society of Ireland: Civil Registration In Ireland: "Bringing Civil Registration into the 21st Century"
• [065] GRONI: Civil Registration in the 21st century - cached copy available at Google
• [065] FamilySearch
• [065] Civil Registration - IGI and BVRI
• [065] Family History Library Batch Numbers
• [065] Sean Murphy: Poor Law Unions/Registration Districts by County
• [065] ConnorsGenealogy: Ireland Civil Registration Registrars' Districts
• [065] ConnorsGenealogy: Ireland Registrar's Districts and corresponding counties
• [065] From-Ireland: Civil Registration
• [065] From-Ireland: BMD's by Registration District

Local Transcripts

• [066] Waterford County Library: Death Register Database search (often times out)
• [066] RootsWeb: User-Contributed Databases: Ireland
• [066] County Cork: Civil Registrations
• [066] Ireland CMC Genealogy Record Project

Offshore

• [066] Isle of Man: Civil Registry
• [066] Research in the Channel Islands FAQ
• [066] Channel Islands Genealogy: Volunteers

Certificate Exchanges

• [067] UK BDM Exchange
• [067] UK BDM Exchange
• [067] Scotland BDM Exchange
• [067] Ireland. Births or baptisms, Deaths & Marriages Exchange

Overseas

• [067] 1837online - now called Findmypast
• [068] GenWeb: Country Index
• [068] Cyndi's List
• [068] Cyndi's List: Births
• [068] Cyndi's List: Deaths
• [068] Cyndi's List: Marriages
• [068] New South Wales Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages: Search Historical Indexes
• [068] British Columbia Archives: Vital Events Indexes
• [068] Cyndi's List: U.S. Vital Records