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
FamilySearch
Fold3
MyHeritage
- Nova Scotia, Birth Index, 1908-1917 (357,815)
- Nova Scotia, Marriage Bonds 1763-1864 & Registrations, 1864-1942 (520,478)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- 1861 Census of Canada (2,958,892)
- Ontario, Canada Births, 1832-1914 (239,106 new records. New total 6,723,609)
- Canada, School Yearbooks, 1901-2010 (Added 561,284 records/1,941 yearbooks.)
- FindAGrave (6,904,701)
- Quebec, Canada, Notarial Records, 1637-1935 (in French) (1,518,597 new images)
FamilySearch
- New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920 (245,978)
- Nova Scotia Delayed Births, 1837-1904 (117,025)
- Canada Census, 1851 (456,201 added. New total 2,197,287)
- British Columbia Naturalization Records, 1859-1926 (12,718)
- Nova Scotia, Church Records 1720-2001 (53,976)
- Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877 (112,199)
- Canada, Prairie Provinces Census, 1926 (3,966)
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