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- Introduction
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- Contents of Vital Records
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- Locating Vital Records
See also Canadian Vital Records (KP)for additional information about online sources. Civil governments have created records of births, marriages, and deaths, commonly called "vital records" because they refer to critical events in a person’s life. In Quebec, vital records created by the government are called "civil registration" (état civil), the t...
The information recorded in civil records of vital registration varied over time. Later records generally give more complete information. Vital records are usually written in English or French, but content varies by time period and province. For example, before 1907 in Ontario, parents’ names were not usually on death certificates, but they are aft...
Why can't I find a vital record?
Some possible reasons are: 1. Your ancestor might have lived in a different place from where you were looking for the birth, marriage, or death. 2. Your ancestor may have used a nickname or a different surname, or the registrar spelled the name wrong. See Name Variations in Canadian Indexes and Records. 3. Your ancestor might have lived at a slightly different time from the years you were looking. 4. Not every birth, marriage, or death was registered. You can check: 1. The information you hav...
Records at the FamilySearch Library
The FamilySearch Library has microfilm copies of some civil vital records registration or indexes of many provinces and counties in eastern Canada. However, some records were destroyed, were not available for microfilming, or were restricted from public access by the laws of the country or province. You may research records at the library, but the library does not issue or certify certificates for living or deceased individuals. Most of these records date from the late 19th century. For civil...
Records Not at the FamilySearch Library
Vital records dating from the 20th century are at the vital records office for each province. Earlier records may be at vital records offices or at provincial archives. To protect the rights of privacy of living persons, access to and use of most modern records is restricted. A general discussion of record-keeping practices and the vital records available in each province is in the genealogical handbooks listed in "For Further Reading." See also: Kemp, Thomas J. International Vital Records Ha...
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Quebec: Some pre-1900 records are in regional branches of the Archives Nationales du Québec. Many of these have been microfilmed and are available at the FamilySearch Library. British Columbia, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Ontario: Microfilm copies of unrestricted records from archives are at the FamilySearch Library. To request records from other archives and records not yet microfilmed, write to the provincial archives mentioned in the Wiki research article for the province. City Archive...
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the governments in each province and territory began the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths. These records are also called vital statistics. LAC does not hold these records since they are under provincial and territorial jurisdiction.
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An individual's life is composed of events that occurred at different times such as birth, marriage and death. From early times to the present, baptisms, marriages and burials have been recorded in Church Records and Indexes . In the late 1800s and early 1900s, provincial and territorial governments introduced the civil registration of births ...
The death or burial record generally provides: date of death or burial; name of the deceased, occupation and place of residence; name of spouse or names of parents; age at time of death and cause of death; and. names of witnesses. Deaths are recorded in parish registers or in civil registers. As civil registration (birth, marriage and death ...
