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 Records (Certificates).

Years of Access

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

Unrestricted records (Family History Certificates) are available within 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 in undertaking family history research, the Registry provides free access to unrestricted birth, death and marriage family history indexes. This published information on this website is referred to as Online Historical Indexes.

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