Canada Research Tips and Strategies

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Research Strategies

Purpose of Research Tips and Strategies Wiki Page The Canada Research Tips and Strategies page consists of links to specific research strategies for Canada. It also contains general tips and other resources for finding your ancestors in this locality.

Canada Research Strategies

Below are links to different pages that may help you find your ancestors in Canada.

• How to Locate Your Ancestor in Canada
• How to Recognize your Canadian Ancestor
• Name Variations in Canadian Indexes and Records
• Canada Online Genealogy Records
• British Columbia Archives Research Guide to Genealogy
• BYU Canada Research Outline largely duplicates these Wiki pages. Includes some bibliographic lists from BYU Library, 2001.
• Tracing Family History: Canada Immigration and Citizenship - Genealogy Guide
• The Canadian Genealogical Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Finding Your Ancestors in Canada. by Eric Jonasson. Winnipeg: Wheatfield Press, 1978.

Canada Research Tips

• The Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) helps to find the location of a place in Canada.
  
• Canada Births and Baptisms - FamilySearch Historical Records
• Canada Deaths and Burials - FamilySearch Historical Records
• Some census information can be found at the Library and Archives Canada