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FreeBMD / FreeREG / FreeCEN
Volunteer transcriptions of English and Welsh civil registration, parish registers and censuses. Free, an index only, and not complete.
Last checked 2026-09-22. Tell us if this has changed.
The ground it holds
Record regions whose registers are filed here, and for which years.
- 1837–2026 England and Wales — civil registration
- 1855–2026 United Kingdom — statutory registration — THE TRAP, and it is a pleasant one. Scottish statutory certificates carry far more than English ones — a marriage names both mothers including maiden surnames, a death names both parents. The 1855 registers name more still, because the first year was over-ambitious and then cut back. If your family is Scottish, do not settle for an index entry.
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