These regular listings of additional sources are designed primarily to help family historians whose Irish ancestors emigrated to Canada, but you don't have to have heritage from Ireland!
They may prove useful to any researcher looking for a brief update of what's been recently made available for tracing ancestors in Canada.
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 (if provided by the database owner).
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Canada, Immigrants Approved in Orders in Council, 1929-1960 (71,733)
- Irish Emigrants in North America, 1775-1825 (5,024)
British Newspaper Archive
FamilySearch
FindMyPast
- World War 2 Allies Collection Newly curated collection includes 'Faces of the Second World War' records. (Total 11,377 Canadian records)
MyHeritage
- Canada Newspapers, 1752-2007 (6,961,070 pages, all English, from 345 titles)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935 (16,529,462 total) Mainly in French.
- Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (6,733,928 total)
- Ontario, Canada, Marriages, 1826-1938 (9,681,280 total)
FamilySearch
- Canada Census, 1851 (72,267)
- Canada Marriages, 1661-1949 (34,923)
- New Brunswick Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899 (95,007)
- Nova Scotia Births and Baptisms, 1702-1896 (55,497)
- Nova Scotia Marriages, 1711-1909 (1,162)
- Ontario Births and Baptisms, 1779-1899 (882,525)
- Quebec Births and Baptisms, 1662-1898 (27,818)
FindMyPast
- Canada Billion Graves Cemetery Index (Nearly 100,000 records added)
OntarioAncestors (OGS/LAC/FamilySearch project)
- Vernon's Directories (Ontario City. 658 volumes listed, 32 directories for Hamilton 1901-2020 online and indexed)
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