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For other ideas on locating your ancestor, see [[How to Locate Your Ancestor in Canada|How to Locate Your Ancestor in Canada]]. | For other ideas on locating your ancestor, see [[How to Locate Your Ancestor in Canada|How to Locate Your Ancestor in Canada]]. | ||
If you are not sure a person you found is your ancestor, see How to Recognize Your Ancestor in Canada. | If you are not sure a person you found is your ancestor, see How to Recognize Your Ancestor in Canada. | ||
=== Tip 2 Search Death-related records first === | === Tip 2. Search Death-related records first === | ||
Why might it be better to look for the death record of an ancestor first? | Why might it be better to look for the death record of an ancestor first? | ||
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*Death records exist for many persons born before birth and marriage records began. Death records may contain birth and marriage information not available anywhere else. | *Death records exist for many persons born before birth and marriage records began. Death records may contain birth and marriage information not available anywhere else. | ||
=== Tip 3 How do I find my ancestor's record if they were not in an index?=== | === Tip 3. How do I find my ancestor's record if they were not in an index? === | ||
Not all early records were indexed. You may need to search registers that are available page by page. | |||
If you didn't find your ancestor, search for brothers and sisters, children, and even remarriages of parents, aunts, and uncles. Finding them may not only give additional information you need, it will also verify that you are looking in the right time and place. | |||
Then look in the registers for neighboring or "parent" districts or counties. The place your ancestor lived may have belonged to a different district or county earlier. | |||
Travelling clergymen may have registered marriages with civil authorities in any district or county along their way. Look at all records of churches and clergymen in the area, especially Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, which were not always required to register marriages with district or county authorities. | |||
If you find a marriage in the district or county registers, see if you can find it in the church records as well. There may be new information. | |||
At certain periods of the history of a Province, only certain denominations were allowed to perform marriages. In many cases individuals were married by a priest or minister of a religion other than their own. | |||
== Locating Vital Records == | == Locating Vital Records == | ||