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Sources of online birth, death, marriage, and divorce information.

Births, Deaths, and Marriage Exchange
Hosted by the International Internet Genealogical Society, the BDM is a free resource for sharing information about details contained on birth, death or marriage certificates.

FreeBMD
Volunteers are putting some of the GRO indexes on the web. Almost 3,000,000 records are on line so far from 1837-1898, but they plan to get them all on-line eventually.

FreeREG
The FreeREG Project's objective is to provide free Internet searches of baptism, marriage and burial records, which have been transcribed from parish and non-conformist church registers in the United Kingdom.

Kentucky Vital Records
Death index for 1911-1992, Marriage index for 1973-1993, Divorce Index for 1973-1993.

Maine Marriage Index
Search this free database of Maine marriages from 1892 - 1996.  You can then order a copy of the specific record.

Maine Death Index
A seachable index to deaths in Maine from 1960 - 1996, with instructions on how to order certificate copies.

Scots Origins
A fully searchable index of Scottish birth and marriage records from 1553 to 1899, and death records from 1855 to 1899 available on the Internet. This is a pay-for-use service of the General Register Office of Scotland.

Social Security Death Index
  This free database at RootsWeb.com contains information provided by the Social Security Administration through the end of Febuary 2000 and contains 62,697,327 records.

Vital and Church Records
Ancestry.com has over 100 databases of birth, death, marriage, and church records available online for subscribers.

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