Hi all, I heard someone mention that there is a birth, marriage and death CD for England and Wales. Is it for civil registration starting in 1837 or is it church records from earlier than that? Is it available through most Family History Library centers? If anyone knows anything about this CD would you please let me know. Thanks, Stephanie e-mail: stschick50@chartermi.net

> I heard someone mention that there is a birth, marriage and death CD for England and Wales. Is it for civil registration starting in 1837 or is it church records from earlier than that? Is it available through most Family History Library centers? < Hello Stephanie, It is possible that someone was referring to the British Vital Records Index put out by the LDS. If so, then yes, it will be available through LDS Family History Centres - they will have it at the Centre, you won't have to order it in. While useful and very moderately priced, the CD set has a small fraction of the available records - it is by no means complete, nor does it purport to be. The CD set comes with a list of the number of records per county. There are 33,766 births/christenings for Co. Durham & 2,919 marriages. There are 316,301 births/christenings for Northumberland but only 917 marriages. The CD set consists mainly of parish and other church records (it includes some non-conformist records) of baptisms and marriages, from memory dating from the seventeenth century on to the late nineteenth century. There may be some earlier and later records for some areas - I would have to check. There are also some civil registration records for Ireland, again incomplete. Hope this helps. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Ingrid, NZ