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Record indexes — where to find them free

Name indexes to births, marriages and deaths released by public agencies — the finding aid that tells you which certificate to order.

Public archives Provara searches for record indexes

live  Reclaim The Records (US vital indexes, via Open Archives)
Reclaim The Records / Open Archives · US

Birth, marriage and death INDEXES released under FOIA: New York State & NYC, New Jersey, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi, Maryland, Connecticut; BIRLS veteran deaths

Licence: Public domain (Reclaim The Records) served as CC0 by Open Archives · terms read 2026-09-06

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In Provara, ask Provara to look a name up in the public indexes. With web search on, it searches this archive in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.

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Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.