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Canada - is it true?

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Margaret

Margaret Report 22 Mar 2007 16:28

That records of BMD's are often associated with universities in the relevant province? If so, are any of them accessible 'on-line'? Thanks, M. Steer

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 22 Mar 2007 16:35

Have you tried googling ? Reg

Margaret

Margaret Report 22 Mar 2007 17:12

Reg, Yes I have, to a degree (excuse the pun) but I'm not familiar with Canadian Universities. Researching America and Canada is new to me. From my understanding they do not (like Britain) have a general registration. Maybe I'm wrong - I'm still learning. M. Steer

Devon Dweller

Devon Dweller Report 22 Mar 2007 17:18

This site is very useful http://www(.)collectionscanada.ca/genealogy/022-906.006-e.html

Margaret

Margaret Report 22 Mar 2007 17:30

Thanks Sheila, looks like a very interesting site. M. Steer

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 22 Mar 2007 18:21

I live in Canada, and have for almost 40 years, but I don't have any ancestors here so I haven't really needed to do any genealogy searches here. I don't know whether universities hold the records, but there are loads of universities! It could possibly be that some archiveal material has been moved to university archives, but I very much doubt it. I do know that each province is responsible for holding the records for that province, so you have to search province by province. eg. Ontario records, Alberta records, and so on. Just put the province and government records in your search engine and you should get to the right place (eg. 'Ontario government records' or 'Ontario genealogy'). Good luck!

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

Jenny

Jenny Report 22 Mar 2007 23:01

I’ve lived in Canada for a while now and also have never heard of this. The individual provinces are responsible for keeping the records. I do know that in BC, copies of BMDs are held at some of the larger libraries as I’ve looked up quite a few for other people at Vancouver Public Library. Jenny

Carol71

Carol71 Report 23 Mar 2007 16:13

Manitoba is: http://web2.gov.mb.ca/cca/vital/Query.php Ontario is: http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/interloan/vsmain.htm

Researching:
Cleaver, Ward, Jackson, Fletcher, Roe,and Fitchett, in Hinckley and St. Margarets Leicester.