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 Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Canadian Censuses To Be Digitized and Indexed
Posted by Diane
The subscription site Ancestry.ca (a Canadian records-focused sister site to Ancestry.com) and FamilySearch are partnering to digitize and index Ancestry.ca’s Canadian census records. They’ll be available to Ancestry.ca subscribers in 2009, and the indexes will be free to the public on the FamilySearch Web site. The images will be free at FamilySearch Family History Centers. Canadian national censuses were taken every 10 years starting in 1871; earlier censuses cover various areas of Canada. Under the agreement, FamilySearch will provide Ancestry.ca with images and indexes for 1861, 1871, 1881 and 1916 censuses. Ancestry.ca will provide FamilySearch with indexes for the 1891 and 1901 censuses. This partnership should ease Canadian roots research a bit. Only the 1901, 1906 and 1911 censuses, as well as part of an 1851 census, are indexed by name. To find your ancestor in other censuses, you need to know his or her
district and subdistrict—which could change between censuses. The Web site Automated Genealogy is coordinating a volunteer
indexing project for the 1901, 1906 and 1911 censuses; search the
growing database free. If you find an ancestor’s name and district information, look for him listed in the free census images on the Library and Archives Canada Web site. Library and Archives Canada recently announced a digitization partnership with Ancestry.ca. No specifics were available about which records are up for indexing.
Ancestry.com | Canadian roots | FamilySearch
11/11/2008 10:42:46 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00) 
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Thursday, November 06, 2008
Remembering Canadian Veterans, Re-Watching The War
Posted by Diane
We’re coming up on Veterans Day (in the United States) and Remembrance Day (in Canada), and our contributing editor Rick Crume told me about a neat remembrance of the 68,000 Canadians killed in World War I. Nights through Nov. 11, those names will be projected onto the National War Memorial in Ottawa and buildings elsewhere Canada, and onto the side of Canada House in London's Trafalgar Square. At the 1918 Vigil site, you can search for names of Canadians killed in the Great War to learn the person’s service number, rank, regiment, death date and the when the name will be displayed. Also marking Veterans Day, many PBS stations are re-airing Ken Burns’ WWII documentary The War. It had me riveted to the sofa last year when it first aired. Click here to search for broadcasts on your PBS station. You can get more veterans’ stories on the Veterans History Project's special Web site Experiencing War. (I got a chance to talk with Ken Burns recently, and I’ll share some of the conversation in a later post.) For more on military records, see the Genealogy Insider military records category and the FamilyTreeMagazine.com online toolkit.
Canadian roots | Military records | Social History
11/6/2008 8:18:09 AM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)
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Friday, October 17, 2008
101 Best Web Sites: Canadian Census and Jewish Resources
Posted by Diane
Here's a look at two of our 101 Best Web Sites picks for 2008: - Automated Genealogy: Those with Canadian roots will appreciate this free, volunteer site with transcriptions and indexes of Canadian censuses.
Transcribed and in various stages of proofreading are the 1901, 1906 (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) and 1911 enumerations. The 1851-1852 census is underway, with an ambitious effort to link to other online records about each individual. - Avotaynu: Use this site’s Consolidated Jewish Surname Index to run a Soundex search of information about 699,084 surnames, mostly Jewish, in 42 databases totaling more than 7.3 million records. You also can subscribe to Avotaynu’s free e-mail newsletter on Jewish genealogy.
See the rest of the 101 best at FamilyTreeMagazine.com.
Canadian roots | Genealogy Web Sites | Jewish roots
10/17/2008 1:12:21 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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Monday, July 30, 2007
Search Lower Canada Land Petitions Free Online
Posted by Diane
A new Library and Archives Canada land petition database can help you find ancestors who lived in Lower Canada (where present-day Quebec is) between 1764 and 1841. When New France became a British colony in 1763, the land-distribution system changed. New lands were now granted as part of townships instead of as seigneuries (the term for land the Crown granted to landlords, who in turn leased it to settlers). With the change, many settlers submitted land petitions to the governor. The Lower Canada Land Petitions database indexes their petitions for grants or leases of land, as well as other administrative records. The site contains more than 95,000 references to individuals. Search it by surname and given name. Try spelling variations and surname-only searches, since there’s no Soundex searching. Some records are linked to digitized images, but in most cases, matches show a year, volume and page number of the original record, and a microfilm number. Use the information to request microfilm copies from the Bibliothèque et Archives Nationales du Québec ( Quebec national archives). You can access the Canadian national archives' Lower Canada Land Petitions and other databases from the Canadian Genealogy Centre Web site.
Canadian roots | Genealogy Web Sites | Research Tips
7/30/2007 8:34:59 AM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
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