Genealogy Chat

Useful sites. I have already looked at shipping lists, Canadian census, BMDs. After 1930 it all becomes harder, as their BMDs are not released.

Are you aware of the website Cyndi's List?

http://www.cyndislist.com/canada/

If you would like help with any particular person, please give us the name, dates, places - anything you already know about him/her.

Have you used this site?

http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/genealogy/Pages/introduction.aspx


remember there is no central registration, everything is by province.


The rules for bmds release are generally 50 or 70 for births; 75 or 80 for marriages; and 95 to 100 year for deaths, depending on the province.

Therefore you have to rely on newspaper reports or parish records IF you can find them.

Look for obituaries in newspapers .... check newspaper archives


Other sites could be the gravestone ones

http://canadianheadstones.com/

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

Sylvia - it seems odd to release the birth records after the shortest time and deaths the longest time ??

it does doesn't it!!

but it's true

I have an ancestor of OH's who died ca 1919 in Ontario. I cannot get her death information for another 3 years.

But Ancestry has these Ontario deaths:

Title Collection
Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947

I have to say I googled to find out the dates, and what I posted above was what came up ..... for Ontario!

Sylvia - you've posted reasonable closure periods for D,M,B but labelled them as B,M,D.

Actually, there's more variation across provinces than you show. E.g., in BC the closure period for BMDs is: 1904 on or 120y -whichever is shorter; 85y; 20y - see:
http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/Genealogy

That URL also allows a search, and shows images (although the collection isn't fully digitized yet).

What you gave isn't what's closed for Ontario - check out:
http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/en/tracing/the_records.aspx
This URL mentions a change in regulations - under the old regs, deaths were not closed - but there was no published index for 70y.

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On a separate note, there are BC directories thru mid 1950s online:
http://www.vpl.ca/bccd/index.php/
and for Montreal & its suburbs at:
http://bibnum2.bnquebec.ca/bna/lovell/

thanks mgnv ........... i always get confused as to which is whcih.

I also deliberately only said one province rather than trying to get into the differences.