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.

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Notice Board

The Notice Board was last updated on 3rd August 2026.

Next Members Meeting

Our next members meeting is on Thursday 20th August 2026. The focus of the meeting will be a talk by Nigel Crompton titled The Women Police Service during WW1 and the involvement of the Ministry of Munitions. Nigel will be speaking from St. John's Centre. Members may be remote or at St. John's.

Next Chat-in Meeting

Our next members chat-in meeting is on Tuesday 28th July 2026. Join us from the WMFHS Chat-In Meeting page.

Next Fair

Our next family history fair is The History Show - London at Kempton Park Racecourse on Saturday 3rd October.


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17-Jul-2026

Clare O'Grady's handout for her Researching Your Rural Ancestors talk is available to all on our Talk Handouts page.

3-Jul-2026

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20-Jun-2026

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19-Jun-2026

Adele Emm's handout for her Silken Threads talk is available to all on our Talk Handouts page.


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