Canada Compiled Genealogies: Difference between revisions

== Other Genealogical Indexes ==

Many provincial archives and genealogical societies have prepared surname indexes of various records. The Family History Library has microfilm copies of genealogical indexes for some provinces and portions of provinces. See the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under headings such as:  

CANADA - GENEALOGY - INDEXES  

[PROVINCE] - GENEALOGY - INDEXES  

A private, for-profit genealogical research company has published a series of regional indexes to genealogical information in published Canadian sources, most of which are histories and directories dating from the middle and late 1800s. The indexes include the following information:  

*Surname  

*Given names  

*Type of event (birth, marriage, death, and so forth)  

*Year of the event  

*Sometimes an abbreviated place-name  

*A code that represents the source of the information (this code often includes a page number)  

*Each volume has a gazetteer of place-names and an appendix that provides bibliographic information about most sources.

The regional indexes include:  

Elliott, Noel Montgomery, ed. The Atlantic Canadians 1600–1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates. 3 vols. Toronto: Genealogical Research Library, 1994. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=687047&disp=The+Atlantic+Canadians%2C+1600%2D1900%20%20&columns=*,0,0 971.5 D22a].) This book indexes over 500,000 names from various sources for the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.  

Elliott, Noel Montgomery, ed. The French Canadians 1600–1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates. 3 vols. Toronto: Genealogical Research Library, 1992. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=535280&disp=The+French+Canadians%2C+1600%2D1900%20%20&columns=*,0,0 971 D22f].) This book includes English-speaking and French Canadians from Quebec and French Canadians from other provinces. It lists 468,000 people alphabetically, indexes some genealogical dictionaries for early Quebec, and indexes some directories for later times.  

Elliott, Noel Montgomery, ed. The Central Canadians 1600–1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates. 3 vols. Toronto: Genealogical Research Library, 1994. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=701096&disp=The+Central+Canadians%2C+1600%2D1900%20%20&columns=*,0,0 971 D22cc].) This book indexes over 500,000 names found in 211 sources for Ontario and 8 sources for Manitoba.  

Elliott, Noel Montgomery, ed. The Western Canadians 1600–1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates. 3 vols. Toronto: Genealogical Research Library, 1994. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=737137&disp=The+Western+Canadians%2C+1600%2D1900%20%20&columns=*,0,0 971 D22w].) This book indexes about 300,000 names from various sources for the provinces and territories of Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, and Yukon (also includes Alaska).  

Information from all the above series has been combined on one compact disc as:  

Canadian Genealogy Index 1600s–1900s, from the Genealogical Research Library. Novato, Calif.: Brøderbund Software Inc., 1996. (Family History Library compact disc No. 9, Part 118; computer number 793135.) This compact disc gives dates and places for about two million names. It also includes the source of the information.  

[http://www.ancestry.ca/drouin/ Drouin Collection of French Canadian records 1621-1967]<br>This collection has over 15 million entries for French Canadian genealogical and vital records. It includes Quebec notarial, vital, and church records, Acadian Catholic records, Ontario French Catholic records, early French Catholic records in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New York, and Wisconsin.  

That's My Family<br>http://www.thatsmyfamily.info/<br>Search engine for information on Canadian ancestors across multiple genealogy databases hosted by federal, provincial, and territorial archives and libraries.  

Genealogical Dictionaries and Collections  

The Family History Library has some dictionaries and collections of genealogical material for Canadian families, especially those of French origin. An example is:  

Dennisen, Christian. Genealogy of the French Families of the Detroit River Region, 1701–1936. Ed. Harold F. Powell. 2 vols. Detroit, Mich.: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1987. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=542862&disp=Genealogy+of+the+French+families+of+the+%20%20&columns=*,0,0 977.43 D2d] 1987.) This book includes pedigrees and family groups for hundreds of families on both the Ontario and Michigan sides of the river. It is arranged alphabetically and chronologically by the husband’s surname. It begins with the first immigrants to French Canada in the 1600s and covers their descendants in Michigan to as late as the early 1900s. The information provided includes the date and place of birth for the husband and wife, their marriage date, and their children’s names and christening dates. An index at the end of volume 2 lists wives’ and parents’ names and refers to some members of the clergy and military.  

Additional genealogical dictionaries and collections are listed in the research outlines of the provinces.  

Find additional genealogical collections in the Family History Library Catalog under:  

CANADA - GENEALOGY  

[PROVINCE] - GENEALOGY  

[PROVINCE], [COUNTY] - GENEALOGY