Birth, marriage and death records — where to find them free
Civil registration and church registers: the dates and parents that anchor every generation.
Public archives Provara searches for birth, marriage and death records
Civil registration (birth, marriage, death), church books, population registers, notarial and tax rolls, militia — 207 archives
Birth, marriage and death INDEXES released under FOIA: New York State & NYC, New Jersey, Missouri, Nebraska, Mississippi, Maryland, Connecticut; BIRLS veteran deaths
Indexed birth, marriage and death register entries (parish, date, parents), plus archive volumes and AI-transcribed text
Billions of historical records and the shared Family Tree — via hint → link-out only, per partner terms
Every death in France since 1970: name, birth date/place, death date/place — Licence Ouverte 2.0 bulk files
How to ask
In Provara, ask Provara for a birth, marriage or death by name, place and year. With web search on, it searches all 3 live archives above in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.
Start freeEvery 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.