Genealogy Chat

Ah thank you..this explains why i cant find a marriage or births for people in 1940;s. Very frustrating indeed..but never mind.

Tracey

there are none available for births after 1915 (100 year rule)

some provinces have different rules for marriages and deaths, Ontario is I think 85 years for marriages and 75 for deaths but I could be out a little

British Columbia releases more recent deaths for example, I think 50 years

some provinces have no information accessible on line at all ... the situation is much the same as Australia where rules vary a little from state to state and not all states have indexes available on line (although I may be out of date on that)

if you know where in Canada they went we could check the provinces to see whether there are records on line

familysearch.org has the records that are avalable for Ontario and British Columbia that I know of

one thing I have managed to do for Ontario (also for NSW Australia for example ... jurisdictions where the parents' names are stated on death records) is find deaths before the cutoff date where the person was born too young for the birth to be available

for instance you could find the death of a child of John Smith and Mary Jones (and in my case the name Smith really was all I had for the father! and only a given name for the mother, fortunately fairly unusual - but it worked ... I searched for Smith deaths with mother 'Tessa', say, and I found a death record which gave me the father's given name and the mother's surname)

in that case it was sadly a death in infancy

but anyway other than that you are left with the telephone directory, and Ancestry has Canadian electoral rolls up to 1980, although they are incomplete and the transcription is bad

if the family was there by 1921, the 1921 census is available free of charge through ancestry.ca


... I just looked back at that Smith death record and familysearch now has the death certificate image available ... premature baby at 30 weeks that lived for 4 hours, very sad ...

I have found relatives in Canada but cannot find out anything about them...it seems Canada does not release info as readily as we do here in the UK.Does anybody know of sites that release registers of births marriages and deaths in Canada from 1930 onwards?