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 *[[Canada Church Records| Church Records]] often were kept years before government records were required and are a good source for finding ancestors before 1900
 === I Can’t Find the Person I’m Looking For, What Now? ===
-*Copy the citation below, in case you need to find this record again later
+*Try searching by surname only
-*Use the age or estimated birth date to determine an approximate birth date to find other church and vital records such as birth, baptism, and marriage records
+*The person may be recorded with an abbreviated or variant form of their name
-*Use the information found in the record to find land, probate and immigration records
+*Remember that spelling was generally not standardized until the early part of the 20th century
-*Use the information found in the record to find additional family members in censuses
-*Repeat this process with additional family members found, to find more generations of the family
 === Research Helps ===
 The following articles will help you in your research for your family in [[Canada Genealogy|Canada]].