Sunday, December 21, 2003

Vital Records


The up-to-date copy of this post will be maintained at: http://genweblog.blogspot.com/2006/06/vital-records.html


FreeBMD - Civil Registration index of Births, Marriages, Deaths (England & Wales) - images now available!: http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

British Columbia Canada Vital Event Indexes: http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm#indexes

Saskatchewan BMD Index: http://vsgs.health.gov.sk.ca/vsgs_srch.aspx
   Births more than 100 years ago; Deaths and Marriages more than 75 years ago soon

US Social Security Death Index: http://ssdi.rootsweb.com
    Ancestry's SSDI: http://ancestry.com/search/rectype/vital/ssdi/main.htm.
Family Tree Magazine says: "Pearl Street Software, the makers of Family Tree Legends, launched a new free Social Security Death Index (SSDI) search engine at http://www.familytreelegends.com/ssdi. The SSDI, generated by the US Social Security Administration (SSA), holds valuable genealogical information—including name, birth and death dates, Social Security number and last-known residence—for all Americans who possessed Social Security numbers and whose deaths were reported to the SSA after 1936. Like other online SSDI search engines, Family Tree Legends' version lets you look for relatives by name and social security number and last residence. It also boasts two unique—and especially useful—features: an age-at-death search and a year-range search, which means you don't have to know the exact year someone died."(http://net.fwpublications.com/newsletters/NewsletterArchive/Family_Tree_Magazine_E-Mail_Update/6_5_2003.htm)

New England Ancestors is now keeping a FREE up-to-date SSDI available: http://newenglandancestors.org/research/database/ss/default.asp

Steve Morse makes it possible to search 5 different versions of the SSDI here: http://stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html

Rootsweb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees -- Using the SSDI: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson10.htm

Public Records Online Directory is a Portal to official state web sites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed web sites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. For example, some Recorders' offices have marriage and birth records available online. Although not every county and parish has data online, many have home pages, and where neither is available a phone number has been provided: http://www.netronline.com/public_records.htm

Early Birth Records (197225 births): http://userdb.rootsweb.com/births/

Arizona births 1887-1928, deaths 1878-1953, certificates as PDF files: http://genealogy.az.gov/

California Births 1905-1995, 24 million records: http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/ca/_vitals/cabirthm.htm
   (Username vitalguest, password enjoy, or use: http://www.vitalsearch-ca.com/gen/frmguestpass_v01.htm)
San Francisco, California Genealogy: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/
Nice gateway to Northern CA research: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/norcallib.html

Indiana Marriages through 1850: http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/WWW/isl/Indiana/genealogy/mirr.html

Death Records Search: http://www.death-records.net/

Arizona Deaths 1878-1953: http://genealogy.az.gov/

California Deaths, 1940-1997: http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi
   Los Angeles County Burial Permits 1870-1892: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/LA-Co-Burial.htm

Illinois Death Certificates, 1916-1950: http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/idphdeathindex.html
  Genealogy in the Illinois State Archives: http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/services.html

Kentucky Deaths, 1911-2000 (2,921,383 records) : http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ky/death/search.cgi
Kentucky Vital Records Project (79,869 death records; actual D.C.s online): http://kyvitals.com/

Maine Deaths, 1960-1997: http://vitals.rootsweb.com/me/death/search.cgi

Maryland Deaths 1898-1944: http://mdvitalrec.net/cfm/index.cfm

Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System, 1867-1897: http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/pha/osr/gendisx/search2.htm

Michigan Marriages (Dibean Michigan Marriage Index): http://www.mifamilyhistory.org/dibeanindex/default.asp

Minnesota Birth Certificate Index 1900-1907: http://people.mnhs.org/bci/
Minnesota Death Certificates, 1907-1996: http://people.mnhs.org/dci/Search.cfm

Missouri Birth & Death Records Database: http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/resources/birthdeath/Default.asp

Montana Deaths: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtmsgs/death_records.htm

New Mexico Death Index 1899-1940: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmdi.htm

New York City Death Records Search 1891-1911: http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeathSearch.stm
New York State Vital Records: http://www.health.state.ny.us/nysdoh/consumer/vr.htm

Ohio Death Certificates, 1913-1937: http://www.ohiohistory.org/dindex/

Oregon Historical Records Index: http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/genlist.htm
   http://www.heritagetrailpress.com/Death_Index/

South Dakota Birth Records: http://www.state.sd.us/applications/PH14Over100BirthRec/index.asp

Tennessee Vital Records: http://www.state.tn.us/sos/statelib/pubsvs/intro.htm#vital_records

Texas Deaths, 1964-1998: http://vitals.rootsweb.com/tx/death/search.cgi
  Texas Vital Records FAQ: http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/vitalfaq.html

West Virginia Vital Records: http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/
   Registration is required, but free; actual records can be examined

US Vital Records Information: http://www.vitalrec.com/

Public Record Locator: http://searchsystems.net/

It's always worth checking with your county or state of interest in USGenWeb, http://usgenweb.org. Often volunteers have births, deaths, marriages, cemetery, divorce, and other records.

Evidence and Sources--And How They Differ: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A165713

Vital Records in the United States: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A202011

Beware of Secondary Sources!: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A121701

Tombstones are Secondary Sources: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/prodredir.asp?sourceid=831&key=A284006


Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. - Robert F. Kennedy

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