Birth, Death, and Marriage Records, Australia

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An attempt at a list of online searchable indexes of Births, Deaths and Marriages.

• National - The Ryerson Index Online Database contains 5,369,243 notices from 307 different Australian newspapers allowing people to locate which papers the death notices were published in.

• New South Wales, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

  Free online searches with basic details; name, place and year of event, fathers name, mothers name

With the NSW Indexes, the Binary Search Algorithm can be used to get the exact date of the event.

• Northern Territory, The Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory holds Birth, Death and Marriage records for the British Settlement period which commenced in 1824, and Birth, Death and Marriage indexes from 1873 when newspapers began publication, to the current year, in addition they also have indexed articles that appear in the newspapers about families and events and have many unpublished indexes.

• Queensland, Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages

  Free online searches with basic details, name, place and year of event, fathers name, mothers name

• South Australia, Genealogy SA searches are available online. Limited results are available for free.

• Tasmanian Historical Convicts, Births, Deaths, Wills & Marriages, free with viewable handwritten documents.
• Tasmania, recent B, D & M history, no online searches available, certificates available by postal application from $20.40 AUS
• Tasmania, Familysearch, Australia, Tasmania, Civil Registration, 1803-1933

  Browsable images of baptisms, births, marriages, deaths, and burials in Tasmania (no index)

• Victoria, Historical Index search form, online searches available and results are viewable free ($20 AUS for a paper copy).
• Victoria, Creswick and Clunes Newspaper Births, Deaths and Marriages Adverts

  Searchable indexes for around 1859 to 1870

• G2G discussion re Victorian BDM's, January 2017.

• Western Australia, pioneers index, Free online search available. Basic information returned; name, event date, fathers name, mothers name.

• Western Australia reverse marriages lookup it is handy for finding marriage records that you can't find in the BDM WA pioneer index.