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Canada Quick Start

                                                   



1.  Complete a pedigree chart and a family group sheet.

2.  Search at home and talk with family members to gather all possible information.

3.  A Research Outline for Canada and a Research Outline for the Province

     you want to search are helpful.  (for sale in the copy room).

4.  Refer to the How To Books for each Province.

 

COMPUTER RESEARCH:

 For any work that might already be done, look at:

    * FamilySearch.org - 1881 CENSUS INDEXED

    * Google - 1871 ONTARIO CENSUS INDEXED

    * Pedigree Resource File

    * Ancestry.com

    * Parish and Vital Records.

    * 1901 - 1906 - 1911 Census

                * www.freesurnamesearch.com

                * www.collectionscanada.ca

                * www.automatedgenealogy.com

National Archives of Canada www.archives.ca

Canadian Maps http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/canada.html

Cyndi's List www.cyndislist.com

On the REFERENCE SHELF A white binder with yellow spine marked Canadian

Web Sites.

Canadian CD's are on the CD computers - refer to CD binder for collection.

 

FILM RESEARCH:

Census Films: 1851 - 1861 - 1871 - 1881 - 1891 - 1901.

Use the White Binders marked Canadian Census. Each year has a step by step Guide.

 

BOOK RESEARCH:

Canadian genealogy Index 1600 -1900 all provinces (Canada Research Shelf)

  13 volumes, (index to place names in the back pages).

In Search of Your Canadian Roots by Angus Baxter.  Bullingers Postal Guide 970.E86

The Canadian Genealogical Handbook by Eric Jonasson

Checklist of Parish Registers Ref 971 K23p 1986

Canada's Gazetteer and Shipping Directory 971.E5

White Binders marked Canada On Canadian Shelf

 

MAPS:

Maps Of Canada and each Province. Drawer 5 of Map Case

Ward Maps of Nine Canadian Cities Census 971G7g

 

GENEALOGICAL SOURCES IN CANADA INCLUDE:

National Archives of Canada www.archives.ca

          Acadian sources                                        Birth, Marriage, Death, Divorce and    

          Census records                                         Adoption records

          Employment Records                                Citizenship (naturalization) records 

          Immigration records                                  Home children

          Li-RA-Ma (Russian Consular records)      Land records

          Métis records                                            Loyalist sources

          Newspaper & Obituaries                           Military records

          School Records                                         North West Mounted Police (R.C.M.P.)

                                                                           Wills and estate records

 

To research by Province see the quick start reference sheet for Quebec and Ontario

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