New Brunswick Civil Registration: Difference between revisions

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*[https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/VISSE/NameIndex.aspx?culture=en-CA&letter=A&datasets=012 '''Vital Statistics from Government Records'''] Search Engine  [https://archives.gnb.ca/Search/VISSE/Introduction.aspx?culture=en-CA Coverage details] Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Index to births, marriages and deaths, 1800-1959.

*[https://sites.rootsweb.com/~nbcarlet/nb_newspapers.htm '''Vital Statistics From New Brunswick Newspapers''']

*[http://www.genealogysearch.org/canada/newbrunswick.html New Brunswick Genealogy Records Online]  Scroll down to county lists.

== Births ==

===FamilySearch===

*'''1679-1686, 1751-1757''' {{FSC|214001|item|disp=Nouvelle-Écosse, Acadie et Gaspésie, 1679-1686, 1751-1757, registres de l'état civil, catholique}}

*'''1810-1899''' {{RecordSearch|1967766|New Brunswick Late Registration of Births, 1810-1899}} at FamilySearch — index & images

*'''1810-1906''' {{RecordSearch|1726660|New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Births and Late Registrations, 1810-1906}} Index and images.

*'''1810-1905''' {{FSC|776522|item|disp=New Brunswick provincial returns of births, 1869-1905, 1906 (A-Be); late registrations, 1810-1905; indexes to late registrations, 1900-1904}}

*'''1812-1919''' {{RecordSearch|2258137| New Brunswick, County Registers of Births, ca. 1812-1919 Images}},  {{RecordSearch|2258166|'''Index'''}}

*'''1819-1899''' {{RecordSearch|1805645|New Brunswick, Births and Baptisms, 1819-1899}} Index only.

*'''pre-1920 and indexz 1801-1999''' {{FSC|776523|item|disp=New Brunswick county registers of births : 1888 series; pre-1920 county book series; and index, 1801-1899}}

*'''1888-1895''' {{FSC|831331|item|disp=Brunswick provincial registers of births, 1888-1895, and indexes, 1888-1895}}

===New Brunswick Archives===

*'''1763-1957''' [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1952893 Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957], index. Includes marriage bonds 1763, 1765, 1770-1780, 1782, when New Brunswick was still part of Nova Scotia.

*'''1789-1950''' [https://search.ancestry.ca/search/db.aspx?dbid=61511 New Brunswick, Canada, Marriages, 1789-1950], index & images ($).

*'''1789-1889''' {{RecordSearch|2001063|New Brunswick, Marriage Registers, 1789-1889}} Images only.  

*'''1810-1932''' {{FSC|635203|item|disp=Marriage bonds, 1810-1932; index, 1810-1932}}

*'''1887-1919''' {{RecordSearch|2001064|New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages, 1887-1919}} Images only.  

*'''1887-1925''' {{FSC|736846|item|disp=Cumulative index marriages : extracted from RS141--Vital Statistics Branch records}}

*'''1888-1895''' {{FSC|778305|item|disp=New Brunswick provincial registers of marriages, 1888-1895; county registers of marriages, 1888-1921; marriages returns, 1888, organized by county; and indexes, 1888-1895}}

*'''1920-1950''' {{RecordSearch|2001065|New Brunswick Provincial Returns of Marriages and Late Registrations, 1920-1950}} Images only.

*'''1670-1946''' [http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=1110&path= Roman Catholic marriage records] in the Acadia, Drouin Collection (1670-1946) on Ancestry - index & images ($). Available records vary by area.

*[https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-20821/canada-new-brunswick-marriages?s=275764761 Canada, New Brunswick Marriages] at MyHeritage — index & images ($)

*'''1815-1938''' {{RecordSearch|1840147|New Brunswick Provincial Deaths, 1815-1938}} Index and images.

*'''1815-1919''' {{RecordSearch|1719804|New Brunswick, Provincial Returns of Deaths, 1815-1919}} Images only.

*'''1888-1919''' {{FSC|782285|item|disp=New Brunswick provincial registers of deaths, 1888-1895; indexes, 1888-1895; county registers of deaths, 1888-1919 (1921 for Kent Co.); and returns of deaths, 1888, organized by county}}

*'''1935-1938''' {{RecordSearch|1840145|New Brunswick, Death Certificates, 1935-1938}} Images.

===New Brunswick Archives===

 

*Originally, civil registration records were created by collecting copies of baptism, marriage, and burial records that the government required churches to submit. These are online in the '''Drouin collection''', with Ancestry.com links above.

*Marriage bonds, available starting in 1810,  were required when '''banns were not read in the churches or when the clergyman did not know both of the parties'''. The bond was to protect the woman from a ‘breach of promise’ situation.

*Covering 1810 to 1887, there are some birth records, created after the beginning of government records (1888), a '''"Late Registration"''' compilation. These are very incomplete.

*Beginning in 1812, the original counties were required to register marriages. See [[New Brunswick Civil Registration #Coverage Table of Provincial Marriage Records|'''Coverage Table of Provincial Marriage Records''']] for the years available.

*The provincial government of New Brunswick began recording births, marriages, and deaths in 1888.

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*Groom's age, marital status, occupation, and residence

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:Internet: [https://www2.snb.ca/content/snb/en/sites/vitalstatistics.html '''Service New Brunswick: Vital Statistics'''].

*Most of these records are available at the FamilySearch Library. Find them by searching under [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/results?count=20&placeId=1929956&query=%2Bplace%3A%22Canada%2C%20New%20Brunswick%22&subjectsOpen=538934-50,1245196-1,525763-50,537625-50 Vital Records for each county]. Click on "Places in Canada, New Brunswick", then the county. Scroll down to "Vital Records" and "Vital Record-Indexes". Some of these are available online, as indicated by the small camera icon. However, a key above the icon imeans that they can only be viewed at a [[FamilySearch Centers|FamilySearch Center]] near you.

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<br><br>'''*''' Early Northumberland County marriages are listed among the Justices of the Peace records of their Courts of Quarter Session.<br>

<br>'''**''' Père Henri Langlois, O.F.M. (1901-1968) compiled an eight volume, typescript record of marriages in Madawaska and the region of the upper St. John River, from 1792 to about 1940. This is essentially the Diocese of Edmundston and includes parishes in Aroostook in Maine. It is available at both the PANB in Fredericton, and LAC in Ottawa. The latter’s bound photocopy of the original onion-skin sheets is titled ''Dictionnaire Généalogique de Madawaska''. Entries are alphabetical by family name, i.e. Volume I is A-B, etc. <br> <br>'''***''' ''Early Marriage Records of New Brunswick: Saint John City and County from the British Conquest to 1839'', Introductory Note and edited by Sociologist, B. Wood-Holt (Saint John: Holland House Inc., 1986), a somewhat curious compilation from many sources that probably includes almost all marriages in the Saint John region prior to 1840. Her notes are informative and the thorough indexing makes this a useful research tool.<br> <br>'''§''' Ruby M. Cusack has transcribed and published the Saint John County registers, ''C 1839-1847'', and ''D 1847-1853''; as well as Kings County ''Register A, 1812-1844'' and ''Register B, 1844-1867''. John R. Elliott has published Kings County Registers C and D (1867-1888). See their listing in ''Generations''. As well, [http://www.rubycusack.com/ Ruby Cusack] has a website.  

'''§§''' George H. Hayward has published York County ''Volume 1, 1812-1837'' and some for Carleton County, Ken Kanner has published the early Marriages for Albert and Westmorland Counties, see listings in ''Generations'' “Information Sheets”.

Divorce was once a matter for Parliament. Brian Gilchrist’s ''Index to Canadian Parliamentary Divorces, 1867-1930'' (Toronto: privately published) indexes all names, both partners, children etc. Some individual’s petitions or records are held by the Library and Archives Canada, check the their website, Government of Canada Files database, key word “Divorce”—but after 1916 you must apply to the Law Clerk and Parliamentary Council, Senate of Canada.