Below you'll find my summary of the new and updated Canadian records released by the major genealogy database suppliers over the last seven weeks. For the previous summary, see my 19 May blogpost.
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
FindMyPast
- Ontario, Toronto Emigrant Office, Index 1863-1883 4 assisted-immigration registers (29,000+)
- Saskatchewan Vital Records Birth Index (64,000)
- Saskatchewan Vital Records Death Index (55,000)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (6,739,019)
- Canada, Selected School Yearbooks, 1901-2010 (Latest update replaced old records with new updated records for most of the books found on the site)
- Canada 1921 Census
- 1871 Census of Canada (3,516,910)
FamilySearch
- Canada, New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920 (65,301)
- Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877 (112,041))
- Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959 (10,5858)
- Canada 1851 Census (1,741,086)
FindMyPast
- Canadian Directories & Almanacs, 1853-1975 (433 volumes/353,000 images added)
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