As the Registry collects sensitive and private data about you and your family, and with the rise in Identity Fraud within Australia, the Registry has stringent entitlement and identification policies in place. Certificates are only available to the person named on the certificate and identification is required, with the exception of unrestricted Family History Certificates.

• Restricted records are normally only available to the person named on the certificate and identification is always required.

• Unrestricted records are available to anyone. Identification is not required. We refer to these unrestricted records as Family History.

Years of Access

Family History Certificates are unrestricted in the following years. For the years mentioned below, identification is not required and in most instances, the certificate can be released to any applicant.

Family History Certificates are available for the following years:

• Births: that occurred 100 years ago or more
• Marriages: that occurred 50 years ago or more
• Deaths: that occurred 30 years ago or more

To assist customers with their family history research, we provide free access to unrestricted birth, death and marriage family history indexes. This information is referred to as the Online Historical Indexes.

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