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 scanning 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 Staffordshire ancestry can begin to make use of indexes made accessible through the Internet via StaffordshireBMD. 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. If you have any comments about these pages, or if you would like to know more about how to set up similar projects in your own area, please contact us at Webmaster@StaffordshireBMD.org.uk.
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