These regular listings of additional sources are designed primarily to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated to Canada, but they may prove useful to Canadian researchers looking for a brief update of what's newly available.
Unless otherwise stated, the figures in parenthesis reflect the number of records uploaded to a new collection, or the total number in a newly topped up collection.
NEW COLLECTIONS
MyHeritage
- United States and Canada, Index of Obituaries, 1900–2019 (16.5million) These records have been sourced from various newspapers across North America. The indexed details include the names, ages, birthplaces and places of death of the deceased as well as publication source.
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
FamilySearch
- Prairie Provinces Census, 1926 (2,073,271)
- Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877 (218,765)
- Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877 (9,624)
- Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918 (175,773)
- Manitoba, Church Records, 1800-1959 (10,578)
Ancestry
- Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (6,103,062)
- 1891 Census of Canada (4,790,154)
- 1911 Census of Canada (7,223,678)
- Canada, Obituary Collection, 1898-Current (8,507,084)
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
- Some 200,000 documents now in public domain are on the BAnQ website. Copyright-free, they can now be used without permission by anyone, for whatever purpose. See Gail Denver's explanatory post.
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