Online ordering service - Register or Login

Welcome to the General Register Office for England and Wales online ordering service.

The General Register Office holds a central copy of all birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership and death registrations for England and Wales. This service allows you to search our historical birth and death indexes and order copies of registrations in a variety of formats including certificates, PDFs and Multilingual Standard Forms via the government's own official website.

Local Register Offices also hold records of events registered in their area. For events other than adoptions that were registered within the last 6 months (for marriages this period is extended to 18 months), applications for certificates should be made to the Register Office in the district where the birth, death or marriage took place.

To use this service you will need:

An e-mail address
Full name and postal address
Details of the registration you are applying for - e.g. birth, adoption, marriage, civil partnership or death

One of the following valid credit or debit cards if placing an order (searching our online indexes is free)

Service Information

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This service does not support the use of the browser BACK button, please only use links and button options to navigate the site.

Website Improvements

Welcome to the new look website for the General Register Office which was updated on 12th September 2019

We are currently adding to our online indexes which will help you identify and apply for copies of our records. We have now added online indexes for deaths registered between 1984 to 2019.

We will notify you here when more indexes are added online.

Multi-lingual Standard Forms may not be recognised by EU Member States once the UK has left the EU. Individuals should contact relevant authorities in EU Member States to check whether they will accept MSFs post-Brexit.

Register or Login

If you are using the site for the first time you will need to complete the registration process:
Register as an Individual
Register as a representative of a Company or Organisation

Please Note: If you registered previously but have not logged in during the past two years your account will have been removed from our system and you should register again using the links above.