Births Deaths Marriages and Wills

Births, Deaths, Marriages and Wills

Website link Organisation Cost Area covered Notes
GRONI Births, Deaths and Marriages General Register Office for Northern Ireland (GRONI) Registration required. Pay to view records Northern Ireland Birth records over 100 years old, death records over fifty years old and marriage records over 75 years old. Free search after registration & purchase of one credit. Charge for subsequent records
Irish Births, Deaths & Marriages Irish Genealogy (Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media) Free Ireland Births and deaths from 1864 onwards, some marriages from 1845 and the rest from 1864 onwards. Northern Ireland records until 1921 only
Family Search The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Registration required. Mostly free, some content requires a subscription Worldwide Digitised birth, marriage and death records worldwide 
Catholic Church Records National Library of Ireland Free Ireland Digitised Catholic Church registers, but no name search facility
Free UK Genealogy FreeUKgenealogy Free Ireland & UK Volunteer-led transcriptions of public records from governmental sources, parish churches and other trusted institutions
Marriage Licence Bonds The National Archives of Ireland Free Ireland Diocesan and Prerogative Marriage Licence Bonds Indexes, 1623 - 1866
County Antrim & County Down Records Ulster Historical Foundation Pay to view records, account required Co. Antrim & Co. Down Birth/Baptismal records c.1660-1930; Marriage records c.1660-1930; Death/Burial records c.1660-1998
Pre-1922 Co. Derry/Londonderry Records Roots Ireland Subscription Derry/Londonderry Pre-1922 civil birth / marriage registers for the county & baptismal / marriage registers for 85 churches
Emerald Ancestors Emerald Ancestors Subscription Northern Ireland Birth, marriage, death and census records for over 1.5 million individuals
PRONI Will Calendars Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) Free Armagh, Belfast, Derry/Londonderry Index to will calendar entries for Armagh, Belfast & Derry/Londonderry 1858 to 1965. Digital images of wills for Armagh, (1858-1918), Belfast (1858-1909) and Derry/Londonderry (1858-1899)
PRONI Church Records  Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)  Free Historical Ulster, Leitrim & Louth  A link to a PDF document detailing church records held at PRONI and in local care, along with dates covered for each individual church
Scottish Records  National Records of Scotland Free search, registration required. Pay to view records Scotland Contains births, marriages and deaths from 1855 onwards, census returns from 1841 onwards, and many other records