Web Sites for Genealogists, 2008 edition. Click here for details.

The Middlesex Marriages Index  by Sandy Coleman lists 45,000+ Middlesex marriages (1563-1895).

The Joiner Marriage Index for the North of England and Hertfordshire by Paul Joiner. Over 1 million  marriages are indexed (1500s-1837). There is a free name search available with a fee of £2.50 to search up to 10 records. 

 National
FreeBMD  This ongoing project offers free access to the civil registration indexes for England and Wales (1837-1983). Currently 151+ million records are available plus access to scanned images of the original indexes. This great site is fully searchable and is regularly updated with new material.

General Register Office with civil registration information for England and Wales. Certificates can be ordered online. 

UK BMD. Births, Marriages and Deaths on the Internet.  This site offers links to 811+ web sites that offer online transcriptions of UK births, marriages, deaths and censuses.

Findmypast.com  offers access to exact replicas of the original birth, marriage and death indexes for England and Wales. From 1837-1983 scanned pages of the indexes are available. A database search is available for 1984-2005. There are indexes to births, marriages, deaths at sea from1854 and for the British overseas 1761-2002. Other indexes include divorces, death duty registers, National Burial Index (1538-2005) and City of London burials 1742-1904. A variety of pricing plans exist.

The Genealogist. This commercial site offers access to the complete BMD Indexes 1837-2005 as published by the GRO. The records are in database format 1984-2005 and as images of the original index pages 1983- 1837. They also offer access to 1,100+ parish register transcripts.  A range of subscription options are available.

Local Register Office Indexes
Multi-Region BMD Search offers combined searching of the Bath, Cheshire, Lancashire, North Wales, Staffordshire, West Midlands, Wiltshire and Yorkshire databases. Use the main county sites (listed below) if you know the area as they offer more options.

North East BMD. A gateway to the online BDM indexes for the north east of England including Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton on Tees, Hartlepool, Newcastle upon Tyne, County Durham and Darlington.

West Midlands BMD (Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire) online birth, marriage and death indexes from 1837. This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.  

Bath BMD Birth, death and marriage indexes from Bath & North East Somerset register office (1837-2004) are being put online. This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.  

Cheshire
Cheshire BMD The birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837 are being put online. Currently 2,617,768 birth, 893,491 marriage and 1,565,839 death records are available. 

Durham
Durham County Council. Click on Registrars Certificates, listed under Popular Pages, for access to birth, death and marriage indexes. Currently marriage indexes 1837+, death indexes 1991+ and many of the birth indexes are available.

Darlington Borough Council offers online searching of the birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837.

Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Family History Society online birth, marriage and death indexes 1837-2002.

Lancashire
Lancashire BMD The birth, death and marriage indexes from 1837 are being put online. This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.  

 Northumberland
Northumberland & Durham Family History Society and Newcastle Register Office birth, marriage and death indexes project. Currently births 1837-1870 and marriages 1837-1900 are online. 

Yorkshire
Yorkshire BMD online birth, death and marriage indexes 1837-1950. This ongoing project is adding new data as it becomes available.  

Barnsley Register Office, in conjunction with the Barnsley Family History Society, is placing birth, death and marriage indexes online from 1837.

Rotherham Council is placing births and marriages indexes for the Borough of Rotherham online from 1837.

Sheffield Register Office is placing birth, death and marriage indexes online. 

Tees Valley Indexes to birth, death and marriages records held at Middlesbrough, Hartlepool, Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar & Cleveland register offices. The scope of the index, from 1837, varies depending on the area.

Wrexham Council Marriage Index 1837-1997. This ongoing project, in conjunction with the Clwyd Family History Society, will also provide online indexes to Wrexham births and deaths 1837-1950.