Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records
Service outage: From 10:00pm Saturday 28 December and 2:30pm Sunday 29 December (NZDT).
This website will be unavailable due to system maintenance. You may want to check back from time to time as you may be able to access the website earlier. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
Welcome to the Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records website. You can search and order New Zealand Government records for births, deaths and marriages (BDM) here.
The historic data available for you to search is limited so that information relating to people who might still be alive, can be protected. Information available includes:
- Birth of a living person who was born 100 years ago or more
- Birth of a deceased person who died 50 years ago or more or who was born 80 years ago or more
- A stillbirth that occurred 50 years ago or more
- Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago, or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago
- Marriages that occurred 75 years ago or more
View the Search Results to see what information you can get.
Researching life events has never been faster. Try it for yourself by going to Search.
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How can I get beyond the Proceed to Payment on the Order confirmation page of the website?
The problem may be due to the browser you are using, e.g. If you are using IE10 try the following:
- Press F12
- Select IE10 Compatibility mode from the toolbar this is displayed
- Press F12 to make the toolbar disappear
This will put IE10 into a mode that is backward compatible, this means it will work with websites that were written for earlier versions of Internet Explorer.
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If you provide your email address in your delivery details we will email your printouts to you instead of posting them by mail.
The processing time remains the same. Certificates will continue to be sent by mail.
