Births, Deaths and Marriages

​​There are a range of records to help you find out more details about a person's birth, death or marriage in Tasmania.

What is online?

• With the Tasmanian Names Index you can search and v​iew many records including wills, inquests and birth, death and marriage records
• Church records for baptisms, weddings and funerals
• Cemetery records
• District registers of birth death ma​rriage registration records 1839-1920​
• Newspaper birth and dea​th notices
  
• Trove for news​paper announcements on baptisms, marriages plus obituaries
• Tasmanian newspapers not part of Trove's Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program

What else is there?

• Tasmanian Pioneer's Index 1​803-1899
• Tasmanian Federation index - births 1900-1919 and death and marriage records 1900-1930
• See the guides on church records and cemetery records to see what's available physically
• General index cards of people, photos and correspondence in the Reading Room, Hobart​

Other library resources

• Local indexes to births deaths and marriages
• Indexes of personal announcement in local newspapers

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