Australian BDM certificates & saving money

Family History Research

Australians refer to Births, Deaths and Marriages (or BDM) – in alphabetical order. In UK these are described as BMD (in chronological order) while most Northern Americans refer to Vital Statistics.

I’ve been writing a course on Australian Births, Deaths and Marriages for the National Institute of Genealogical Studies. In Australia births, deaths and marriages are managed separately by each state or territory. While these have some common history there are also differences in the records and indexes available. (Links to the various BDM Registries can be found here.)

The following are some tips for saving money, while searching Australian BDM:

1. Check whether a family member already has a copy of the certificate you want.
2. Most states’ and territories’ Registry BDM indexes online are free to search, although Victoria’s cost & some regions don’t have online indexes.
3. Most states and territories have BDM indexes on CDROMs that can be…

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The Research Cycle

The link below is to an article that looks at what it calls ‘The research Cycle.’

For more visit:
https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Restart_the_Research_Cycle