England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1900

Vital to family historians and genealogists for the information they include, copies of anyone's birth, marriage or death certificates can be obtained by the public. Finding the right information to order these copies may be done by searching the Civil Registration indexes.

Parish records--primarily christenings, marriages, and burials--provide the best source of vital record information in the centuries before civil registration which began 1 July, 1837.

England and Wales, Civil Registration Index: 1837-1983

Search the IGI (International Genealogical Index) County Marriage Databases for England