What Records About Births, Marriages And Deaths At Sea Are Going Online In 2007?
The National Archives at Kew in London is working with Genealogy Suppliers Limited during 2007 to digitize some important birth, marriage and death records from non-parish registers and from events that took place outside the UK. These will be put online in a searcheable indexed form later in 2007. They will also include some records of births, marriages and deaths that occurred at sea. The classes of records involved include: BT 158 (Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen and predecessor: Registers of Births, Deaths and Marriages of Passengers at Sea), BT 159 (Board of Trade: Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Deaths at Sea of British Nationals) and BT 160 Board of Trade: (Registrar General of Shipping and Seamen: Registers of Births at Sea of British Nationals). These records will be a great help as, if your ancestor did get married or died at sea, it is often very difficult to find out what happened to them. These records will only account for a
