To search for BDM records or Vital Records as they’re known in the US, Family Search, Ancestry and Find My Past are the places to go. Family Search is completely free, you just need to set up an account with them. Ancestry and Find My Past can be used for free at libraries.
See if you can find local government databases relevant to your ancestors. Hint: UK is country based, USA is state based. Sometimes these will only give you indexes with no new helpful information and other times you’ll have access to the digitised certificate for free!! It just varies so much from place to place.
Here’s a few to get you started:
19th century marriages in Poznan, Poland
USA:
Tune in next week for newspapers! Woo!
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