2-month summary of new/updated Canadian collections

Below you'll find my summary of the new and updated Canadian records released by the major genealogy database suppliers in the last two months. For the previous summary, see my 7 November blogpost.

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 recently 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

Ancestry

• Nova Scotia, Canada, Petitions in Favour of Female Suffrage, 1918 (3,865)

FamilySearch

• Vernons Directories

FindMyPast

• Ontario Genealogical Society images on the PERiodical Source Index ('thousands')

MyHeritage

• Canada, Burials, 1800-2019 (2,137,853 free, unsourced)

OntarioAncestors

• Vernons Directories

UPDATED COLLECTIONS

Ancestry

• Nova Scotia, Canada, Marriages, 1763-1942* (503,931)
• Nova Scotia, Canada, Births, 1840-1917* (330,053)
• Nova Scotia, Canada, Deaths, 1864-1877, 1890-1965* (466,982)
• Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913 (Improvements to source citations. No new records)
• Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (6,103,062)
• 1901 Census of Canada Census & Voter Lists (5,343,565) 
• Canada, Voters Lists, 1935-1980 (95,335,143)

FamilySearch

• Canada Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001  (22,662)
• Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896  (129,910)
• Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918  (175,773)
• Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877  (9,699)
• Canada Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959  (1,523,197)
• Canada Census, 1901  (5,343,565)
• New Brunswick Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899  (24,967)
• Ontario Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899  (454,550)
• Ontario Births, 1869-1912   (2,081,426)
• Quebec Births and Baptisms, 1662-1898  (26,472)

Interment.net

• Headstone inscriptions from five cemeteries in Quebec (12,080)

*Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management (NSARM) These records are not searchable in Ancestry's Global database. The individual collection page must be accessed directly and the NSARM T&Cs agreed.



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