Genealogy Chat

Hi All
Thank you so much for that information will certainly be looking into those websites you have all provided.Looks likeI may have a bit of a search on my hands if only my Mother in Law had kept the letters that came with the photographs.

Norma

Janey - Ontario deaths aren't closed at all. It's just that there's no index published for 70 y, so to apply for a d.cert, you have to already know pretty much what it says.

Norma - If you visit the Alberta provincial archives (in Edmonton), then :
The Archives holds records of the civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths for Alberta from about 1870 to the 1980's for some communities. There is an index available for the records created up to 1905. Records created after 1905 are organised by place; therefore it is necessary to know where in Alberta the event took place and approximately when.

http://culture.alberta.ca/archives/referenceservices/genealogy.aspx

Alberta has no vital statistics databases on line, unfortunately, and there aren't "Records Offices" in Canada. Vital records (BMDs) are held centrally by the provincial governments.

It would depend on the provincial laws, but in Ontario a death after 1939 would still be protected by privacy legislation and the info would be available only to direct descendants who could prove the death and relationship. Alberta, I don't know. British Columbia does have access to later deaths, and also has searchable databases on line.

I'd recommend contacting the genealogy society (although I don't know anything about it):

http://abgensoc.ca/

Uh oh, there's also the Alberta Family Histories Society

http://www.afhs.ab.ca/

and I don't know what the distinction is!

You might try asking the public library

http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/

about whether it has local newspapers on microfilm back to that era - although I can't imagine scrolling through years' worth of them.

Googling

alberta vital statistics

here are a couple more general info websites:

http://www.canadiangenealogy.net/alberta/alberta_vital_records.htm

and aha, here are Alberta's rules:

http://www.servicealberta.gov.ab.ca/vitalstatistics.cfm

Who can apply for a Genealogical Search?
Vital Statistics records are not public. The person applying for a genealogical search must show they are eligible (pdf) to apply for someone's birth, marriage, death or stillbirth documents.
The only exceptions are:
* After 100 years has passed anyone can apply for any birth registration
* After 75 years has passed anyone can apply for any marriage registration
* After 50 years has passed anyone can apply for any death or stillbirth registration

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Alberta is the right-wingiest place on this half of the continent and it seems it has "privatized" even applying for BMD certificates.

Anyhow, have a browse there and if I can help further shout in the thread here. I'm in Ontario, but I don't think there's anybody around the boards here who's in Alberta.

Good luck!

There may be an online archive for the local papers. I have found obituaries for around 8 members of a family. They usually state who is left behind so a good source for tracing family members., I also found grave locations. Do a google search first to see what comes up .

Does anybody know how easy it is to look up if you visit Canada the death of someone between 1939 and 1950.We are thinking of visiting Calgary next year and my husbands G.Grandmother emigrated there in 1912, we know from some photographs that she was still alive aged 82 in 1939 and from then, there didn't appear to be anymore information,possibly because of the war or maybe she had died.
Would be grateful for any help so we could visit the Records Office in Calgary and look up her death.

Norma