Below is a summary of Canadian family history collections that have been either newly released or updated by the major genealogy databases during the last two months. The last summary list was published on 18 November, see blogpost).
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 in a new collection, or the total number in a topped-up collection (if provided by the database owner). I don't usually include updates of less than one thousand records.
NEW COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
MyHeritage
- Canada, Manitoba, Marriage Index, 1900-1940 (419,724)
- Canada, Manitoba, Birth Index, 1880-1919 (756,113)
- Canada, Manitoba, Death Index, 1880-1949 (321,616)
UPDATED COLLECTIONS
Ancestry
- Canada, Obituary Collection, 1898-Current (419,715) (new total 8,926,805)
- Canada, Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (7,258,901)
FamilySearch
- Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877 (18,985)
- Nova Scotia Church Records, 1720-2001 (137,493)
- Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877 (12,185)
- Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918 (169,148)
- Ontario, Toronto Trust Cemeteries, 1826-1989 (150,838)
- Quebec, Catholic Parish Registers, 1621-1979 (79,535)
- New Brunswick, County Register of Births, 1801-1920 (51,575)
- Ontario Deaths, 1869-1937 and Overseas Deaths, 1939-1947 (2,050,112)
- Manitoba Church Records, 1800-1959 (12,397)
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