West Middlesex Family History Society

Links for Civil Registration and Census Records

Births, Marriages and Deaths

• General Register Office: This covers the registration of births, marriages and deaths in England and Wales and provides a means to submit orders on-line for copies of certificates from July 1837 onwards.
• General Register Office for Scotland: Provides the equivalent information and resources for events registered in Scotland.
• General Register Office (Northern Ireland): Provides the equivalent information and resources for events registered in Northern Ireland.
• BMD Registers: Pay-per-view access to digital images from non-parochial registers held by The National Archives. Includes records of Methodists, Wesleyans, Baptists, Independents, Protestant Dissenters, Congregationalist, Presbyterians, Unitarians, Quakers (Society of Friends), Dissenters and Russian Orthodox.
• FreeBMD: A free, searchable transcription of a large proportion of the GRO indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales between 1837 and 1983. Refer to the site for current details of the coverage.
• FindMyPast: Pay-per-view access to digital images of the GRO indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.
• Ancestry: Pay-per-view access to digital images of the GRO indexes of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales; partly indexed.
• BMDIndex.co.uk: Pay-per-view indexes for birth, marriage and death certificates in England and Wales, complete for 1837-2005.

Census Records

• FindMyPast: Census for England and Wales: Pay-per-view access to transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns for 1841, 1861, 1871, 1881 (free), and 1891 censuses.
• Ancestry: Census for England and Wales: Pay-per-view access to transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881 (free), 1891 and 1901 censuses.
• 1901CensusOnline: Census for England and Wales: Pay-per-view access to transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 censuses.
• The Genealogist: Census for England and Wales: Pay-per-view access to transcripts and scanned images of the enumerators' returns for 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1891 and 1901 censuses.
• FamilySearch: Much information is available free. For some images you get offered a transfer to a charging site.
• FreeCen: A project aiming to provide a free online searchable database for the censuses of 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871 and 1891. Refer to the site for details of the current coverage.
• ScotlandsPeople: Census for Scotland: Searchable indexes and access to images of enumerators returns for the 1841, 1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901 censuses for Scotland.
• CensusOnline.com: This site has links to thousands of census transcription sites world-wide.

Wills

• Gov.UK - Find a will: Since 2015, there is a new online service to find wills from 1996 to present.