CVGG RECOMMENDED RESEARCH SITES 2017/2018 If there are any non-working links, please do a Google search for web site updates. INTERNET SITE TITLE INTERNET SITE ADDRESS COMMENTS Canada Sources General Ancestor Hunt http://www.theancestorhunt.com/ BMD links; obits; newspaper links Automated Genealogy http://automatedgenealogy.com/ Free indices to Canadian Censuses plus Linking Projects Bank of Canada Inflation Calculator http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation- 1914 to present calculator/ CanadaGenWeb Cemetery Project http://cemetery.canadagenweb.org/ free and searchable listing of over 18,000 known Canadian cemeteries. Canadian Genealogy Centre http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index- Library & Archives Canada e.html Canadian Genealogy and History Links http://www.islandnet.com/~cghl/topic.php?top=Archives% 120 links and is laid out by Province 20-%20Libraries%20-%20Museums Canadian Gravemarker Gallery http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cangmg/ Canadian Headstone Photo Project http://www.canadianheadstones.com/ Over 1,572,000 photo records, add your own photos Canadian Virtual War Memorial http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/ca Free search Veterans Affairs Canada nadian-virtual-war-memorial Canadiana Discovery Portal http://search.canadiana.ca/ 60 million + pages of data from archives, libraries, museums, and government agencies. CanGenealogy Dave Obee’s great web http://www.cangenealogy.com/ Sources listed by province site CanGenealogy Historic Newspapers http://www.cangenealogy.com/newspapers.html A long list of links to newspapers Census Online http://www.census-online.com/links/Canada/ links to online census abstracts broken down by Province Collections Canada – City Directories http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/canadiandire Pre- 1901 Directories ctories/index- e.html?PHPSESSID=c59rga71fitd171hagpv156o95 Collections Canada Newspaper Index http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/newspapers-at- 200,000 reels, some are online lac/index-e.html Collections Canada North West Mounted http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/nwmp-personnel- Police records/pages/north-west-mounted-police.aspx 1/20 13-Feb-18 CVGG RECOMMENDED RESEARCH SITES 2017/2018 Collections Canada WWI Personnel http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military- updated Oct 2016 with Newfoundland Records heritage/first-world-war/personnel- files and rejected applicants records/Pages/personnel-records.aspx Connecting Canadians http://www.connectingcanadians.org/en/content/home Multicultural Newspapers Cyndi’s List: Canada Newspapers http://www.cyndislist.com/canada/newspapers/ Dave Obee’s Seminar Topics & Links http://www.daveobee.com/topics.html Includes web links to sites Death Indexes online http://www.deathindexes.com/canada.html Online Canadian Death Indexes & Records Drouin Institute http://www.genealogiequebec.com Church registers QC & ON etc Early Canadiana Online http://eco.canadiana.ca/ 80,000+ rare books, magazines and gov’t pubs 1600s -1940s. Early Years Canadian Northwest http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/B.C.7.htm 1850 to 1864 FamilySearch.org http://www.familysearch.org Huge free research site from LDS FamilySearch Family History Research https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/Canada_Newspapers Wiki – Canada Newspapers Genealogy á la Carte http://genealogyalacarte.ca/?page_id=10484 Canada research sources Genealogy Search www.genealogysearch.org/Canada/ Genealogy records by province One-Place Study Canada http://oneplacestudy.org/canada/ focus on the entire population of a single village or community Our Roots http://ourroots.ca/ Search for local histories by province: Passenger List Indexing Project http://nanaimofamilyhistory.ca/passenger-list-project/ 1903 – 1910 list indexes Prairie Towns.com www.prairie-towns.com/index.html early photos of prairie towns: United Empire Loyalists http://thediscoverblog.com/2014/05/08/the-united-empire- Library and Archives Canada loyalists-finding-their-records/ Wikipedia List of Archives in Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archives_in_Canada archives listed in a sortable table Wikipedia’s List of genealogical and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_societies# historic societies Canada_societies Canada Sources British Columbia BC Archives http://search- Vital event index – click on link to collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy/BasicSearch event registration document – free certificate images BC Cemetery Finding Aid http://www.islandnet.com/bccfa/homepage.html surnames, cemetery name and location 344,000+ entries BC Colonial Despatches Project - UVIC http://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/ James Douglas letters British Colonist Digital Archives http://www.britishcolonist.ca/ 1st 52 years of Times-Colonist newspaper 1858 - 1910 BC Digitized History Books https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks 160 books Cloverdale Public Library http://surreylibraries.ca/location-hours/4684.aspx Extensive genealogy collection 2/20 13-Feb-18 CVGG RECOMMENDED RESEARCH SITES 2017/2018 Comox Archives & Museum C.A.M.S. http://www.comoxmuseum.ca/?q=node/4 local, provincial, national and international sources Family History Centre Campbell River https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Campbell_River_Bri Centre resources, services, & hours tish_Columbia_Family_History_Centre Family History Centre Nanaimo https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Nanaimo_British_C Centre resources, services, & hours olumbia_Stake_Family_History_Centre Library and Archives Canada (LAC) http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Pages/home.aspx Genealogy resources & more Library and Archives Canada - https://www.bac- Newspapers lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/newspapers/newspaper- collection/Pages/newspapers-collection.aspx LAC – WWI Personnel Records http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military- heritage/first-world-war/personnel- records/Pages/search.aspx New Westminster BC Archives http://archives.newwestcity.ca/search.aspx Search the online Archives University of BC Digital Archive http://www.digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/ 200,00+ digital objects Vancouver Public Library’s Digital www.vpl.ca/electronic_databases/ Library Prairie Provinces General Peel’s Prairie Provinces http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/index.html Free Prairie Provinces sources Peel’s Prairie Provinces Newspapers http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/newspapers/ Search from 1871 - 2013 Prairie Immigration Experience http://umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/digital/prarie_i nearly 15,000 digitized archival mmigration/collections.html documents, including diaries, correspondence, photos Prairie Legal Land Converter http://www.legallandconverter.com/ Enter the legal land description Prairie Towns http://www.prairie-towns.com/ Thousands of photos of Canadian prairie towns Vancouver city Archives http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/ Digital photographs Vancouver Island History http://vihistory.ca/ 1884 map, 1885 fire insurance plans, 1889 "bird's eye view" Victoria Canada Sources Alberta Alberta GenWeb http://www.ab.canada.gc.ca/databases/ Alberta Heritage Digitization Project http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/ Our Future Our Past Alberta Provincial Archives http://www.provincialarchives.alberta.ca/archives/ Alberta Research http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/alberta/index.htm Canada 411 – telephone information http://www.canada411.ca/ find living relatives CanadaGenWeb http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~canwgw/ free Canadian Genealogy CanadaGenWeb Cemetery project http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cancemet/ Cemetery directory 3/20 13-Feb-18 CVGG RECOMMENDED RESEARCH SITES 2017/2018 Canada’s Historic Places http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/home-accueil.aspx Canada's definitive source of information on historic places Canadian Genealogy - Alberta http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/alberta/alberta Glenbow Museum & Archives http://www.glenbow.org Our Future, Our Past www.ourfutureourpast.ca/ The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project University of Alberta http://www.peel.library.ualberta.ca/ University of Calgary Map Internet http://www.libguides.ucalgary.ca/ Resource‐Research Guides‐ University of Lethbridge http://www.uleth.ca/lib/search/index.asp?zoom_query=gen A selected list of genealogy resources ealogy Canada Sources Saskatchewan Saskatchewan research sources http://www.saskarchives.com/using-archives/family- history-research/online-resources Canada Sources Manitoba Manitoba.ca www.manitobia.ca/content/en/books/local_histories digitized local history books Manitoba & Saskatchewan Canada Sources Ontario Archives of Ontario http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/index.aspx numerous digital records that can be accessed online. Bytown Or Bust – Eastern Ontario http://www.bytown.net/ Immigration, Settlement Eastern sources Ontario &Western Quebec, Canadian County Atlas Digital Project http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/aboutatlases.html Ontario township maps Canadian County Atlas Digital Program http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/ Free – mainly Ontario atlases GenWeb Saskatchewan www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cansk/ covering all areas of the province Historical Canadian Newspapers Online http://libguides.bgsu.edu/c.php?g=227443&p=1507138 Home Children http://www.bifhsgo.ca/cpage.php?pt=4 Free search Hudson’s Bay Company Archives http://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/biographical/inde HBC & Northwest Company x.html employee biography sheets Ingeneas http://www.ingeneas.com database of emigrants coming though Canada Internet Archive http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62510 Instructions for e-books Lanark County Genealogical Society https://lanarkgenealogy.com/