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Total number of certificates recorded is 972
Number of Birth records is ............ 668
Number of Marriage records is .... 118
Number of Death records is ......... 186

9th April 2024

  • The issue mentioned below has been resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.

    Thank you for your patience.

    31st March 2024

  • There is an issue with our webhost causing issues with our search utilities when navigating to an additional page. Their technical support folks are looking into it.

    We will update this page once the issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience.

    5th January 2024

  • We have released another free Excel spreadsheet. This one assists in the organisation of artefacts from the General Records Office in the United Kingdom. It should help prevent ordering of duplicate artefacts and index them.

    It is available from here or from the top menu.

    12th December 2023

  • We have completed the input of the Great Ayton marriages.

    The page can be access either from the menu bar above or by clicking here.

  • 22nd November 2023

  • We have changed the searches for birth, marriage and death certificates by adding the ability to show names that have alternate spellings.

    These changes will automatically take place when you select a name from the drop down. For example if you search for 'Purves' as a surname the search will show any alternate spelling matches. i.e. 'Perves'.

    We hope to roll the ability out to our other search pages shortly.

  • 9th September 2023

  • We have validated the links to other websites, corrected the ones that moved and marked as 'dead' the ones we can no longer locate

  • We are in the process of entering marriages from Great Ayton in Yorkshire from 1837-1900. These are the ones performed in the All Saints Church. You can follow the progress by clicking here.

  • 9th January 2023

  • We released a new, free Excel spreadsheet named BMD Lister.xlsm.

    This spreadsheet takes the text file created by downloading from the FreeBMD website results and puts them into a worksheet.

    Please refer to the webpage for more details. The webpage is available from here.

  • 8th January 2023

  • We have are in the process of adding details of irregular marriages officiated by Henry Collins at the Lamberton Toll in Scotland.

    Progress and searches of the current database can be made here or from the menu bar above.

  • 13th June 2022

  • We have updated the Census spreadsheet to include the 1921 UK census in the date and skeleton sheets.

    If you need any assistance in adding this to an existing workbook, please feel free to contact us.

  • 1st May 2022

  • We had to fix some of the code behind the webpages due toa server change by our ISP messing things up. It should all function correctly now. Please let us know if things aren't working. Many thanks.

  • 18th February 2022

  • We have fixed an issue with the Death Certificate search and we have truncated the cause of death field to 40 characters on the search criteria selection only. The actual certificate details have the full field displayed.

  • 2nd January 2022

  • We are currently adding certificate details for births, marriages and deaths to include years up to and including 1921.

    We have decided to do this in light of the 1921 census being about to be released.

  • 14th September 2021

  • We have corrected a glitch with the Death certificate search from the summary page.

    All searches should now work fine, if not please contact us with the details so that we can correct the issue.

  • 19th June 2021

  • We have added the names, occupation and life status of the fathers of the couple getting married to our results pages.

    We have made the assumption that if the status isn't declared as 'deceased' on the marriage certificate than the father is still living. If you know differently, or if you can fill in some of the missing data (relationship of witnesses) please contact us with the details and we will add them.

  • 30th January 2021

  • We have updated the Family.zip file to fix an issue with the automatic age at death calculation.

    To retro fit this to your spreadsheets please contact us for instructions by clicking on the contact form.

  • 24th December 2020

  • We have updated the Family.zip file to automatically calculate the age at death and enter it into the relevant location. To retro fit this to your spreadsheets please contact us for instructions by clicking on the contact form.

  • 18th October 2020

  • We have added a brief case study experience. It can be accessed from the top menu bar or from here

  • 8th July 2020

  • We have fixed an issue with the search facility. It now should functions correctly

  • 30th June 2020

  • We have added to the Barningham Baptism database . We now cover years 1581 to 1950.

  • 24th June 2020

  • We have made a little tweak to the birth, marriages and death search pages to make the output in surname order rather than database key order.
  • Several more certificates have been added to the database. Please checkout the database statistics for a current count.

  • 14th April 2020

  • We have completed the data entry for the Bowes Parish registers.
    We are planning to start entering the register information for Barningham Marriages or Deaths next.
    Please check back for progress.

  • 3rd January 2020

  • Happy New Year! We now have over 3000 parish records in the Bowes Parish register and we are still only up to the letter "B"! It will be a long haul but we are working on it.

  • 22nd December 2019

  • We have added an additional statistic page for the Bowes registry page. It is available from the main menu above.

  • 10th October 2019

  • The Excel™ Spreadsheet downloads have been fixed so that they work correctly under Microsoft’s Edge browser.
    Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this failure in Edge.

  • 4th July 2019

  • We are pleased to announce that the Bowes Parish register page now has a search facility available.

    We are still in the process of adding records to the database but what is there is now searchable.

  • 23rd June 2019

  • More marriage certificates have been added to the database.
  • Marriage certificate report details have been developed and are available from the dropdown menu.

  • 10th June 2019

  • Added a new marriage certificate database. Currently only a couple of certificates have been added but it is hoped to add more soon.
  • Marriage certificate report details are still in development as they present some unique challenges.
    It is hoped to have this developed shortly.
  • Changed the search options pages to cut down of any searches for people not in the database. The selections now are populated from information contained with the database only.

  • 20th April 2019

  • Fixed an issue with the death certificate search failing. Sorry for the inconvenience

  • 5th March 2019

  • Added a guestbook to the site.
  • Redesigned the menu system to use CSS instead on JavaScript.
  • Corrected the colour scheme.

  • 26th January 2019

  • Minor changes were made to the database statistic page.

  • 24th August 2018

  • A Major site re-vamp has been undertaken. The new home page is now Ancestry.php.
    Please refresh any bookmarks to reflect this.
  • A death certificate database has been added to the site along with a corresponding search utility
  • Major changes have been made to the menu bar to accommodate the new death certificate database.

  • 1st August 2018

  • Cleaned up output generated when you print a page. No adverts, menus, or visitor statistics will be printed.
  • Older News


    The intent of this website is to provide a way of searching the databases of birth and death certificate details derived from certificates obtained from the General Records Office (GRO) of the United Kingdom. I am really hoping that people will submit contributions to this database so that it becomes a useful resource for all genealogists researching UK births prior to 1912. Currently I am not entering any details for events after 1912 primarily because of the data protection rules (100 hundred years and all that). I may include death details for deaths after 1912 at a later date.

    It is very much a work in progress and is currently just a very small collection based copies that I have purchased or that I have located on the internet so far.

    For a summary of database statistics click here

    These are the facilities that are currently available on these pages:

  • A search utility
  • A County/District list and search utility
  • A Barningham Baptism search facility
  • A US counties search utility
  • A Middlesbrough Marriage venue search facility


  • The search facility will display the details for a particular search request in web page format.

    I would really appreciate it if any submissions could be validated by attaching a scan of the certificate or a copy of the PDF. I promise to delete the image after the details are entered into the database.

    Whereas I will make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information in the database, it is still recommended that an actual certified copy of the actual certificate is obtained from the GRO (Click here to order from the GRO) to be absolutely sure of the correctness of the record and that it pertains to your family tree.

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