Cheshire's Registration Services were the first in the country to post their Birth, Marriage and Death records on the Internet.
CheshireBMD is a joint project between the registration services of Cheshire County Council, Wirral Metropolitan Borough, Trafford Metropolitan Borough and Warrington Borough Council, together with The Family History Society of Cheshire and South Cheshire Family History Society, which will revolutionise public access to records dating back from the start of Queen Victoria's reign.
In the past, most enquiries for copy certificates have involved Registrars
searching through hand-written indexes which refer to weighty copperplate ledgers. But now the indexes the births, marriages and deaths from 1837 to 1950 are being made freely available to family historians throughout the world on the BMD web-sites.
Now, researchers tracing Lancashire ancestry can begin to make use of indexes made
accessible through the Internet via LancashireBMD.
LancashireBMD
is a joint project between the several Lancashire family history societies and
local authorities whose logos appear on the LancashireBMD home page. The site now includes indexes relating to
most of the Registration Districts in Lancashire. There are active discussions with
the Registrars of the remaining Lancashire Registration Districts with a view to further extension
of the coverage. There is
a number of indexes for those parts of the Borough of Trafford which fell within
the historic (pre-1974) county of Lancashire but for which the registers are now
held by the Trafford Register Office. Information from these indexes is duplicated
from CheshireBMD. Similarly, index data from registers now held in the Oldham
Register Office but relating to locations in Yorkshire is copied to YorkshireBMD.
Researchers can make use of the sites' user-friendly search techniques to identify the names they are looking for, and obtain reference numbers from which Registrars can supply the birth, marriage and death certificates.
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