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Church Records

For greater success, use all the Wiki Articles in this series: Determining the Church Your Ancestor Attended in Canada What Can I Find in Canadian Church Records? Searching for Church Records by Denomination Searching for Church Records by Canadian Province

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Denominations

Christian sub-affiliation (2011):

Roman Catholic 41.0% United Church 18.5 Lutheran 8.8% Anglican 7.5% Baptist 2.2%

Pentecostal 2.2% Orthodox 1.8% Presbyterian 1.1% Other Christian 16.9%

Information Found in the Records

To effectively use church records, become familiar with their content. Click on these links to learn about a specific record type:

Baptisms or Christenings Marriages

Funerals or Burials Membership Lists

Minutes or Historical Narrative

Finding the Records

Look for online records.

Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Online databases are incomplete. This can lead to two common errors: Near matches: Researchers might mistakenly accept an entry very similar to their ancestor, thinking it is the only one available. Only use information that matches your ancestor in date, place, relationships, and other details. Stopping research: Researchers might assume the database proves church records do not exist. Actually the record is still out there, just not in this incomplete collection of records. Keep searching!

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• 1661-1959 - Canada, Births and Baptisms, 1661-1959 Index only.
• 1661-1949 - Canada, Marriages, 1661-1949 Index only.
• 1664-1955 - Canada Deaths and Burials, 1664-1955 Index only.

Look for digital copies of church records listed in the FamilySearch Catalog.

Family History Library
Salt Lake City, Utah

• The Family History Library (FHL) has microfilmed and/or digitized records for churches in the Canada.
• Online church records can be listed in the FamilySearch Catalog under the province or a town.
• If you find a record that has not yet been digitized, see How do I request that a microfilm be digitized?
• Some records might have viewing restrictions, and can only be viewed at a Family History Center near you, and/or by members of supporting organizations.
• To find records:

a. Click on the records of Canada, Saskatchewan.

b. Click on Places within Canada, Saskatchewan and a list of towns will appear.

c. Click on your town or the town where the church was, if different.

d. Click on the "Church records" topic. Click on the blue links to specific record titles.

e. Some combination of these icons will appear at the far right of the listing for the record. . The magnifying glass indicates that the record is indexed. Clicking on the magnifying glass will take you to the index. Clicking on the camera will take you to an online digital copy of the records.

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Archives

The Saskatchewan Archives Board

• This is the the repository for the following church records:
  • Diocese of Qu’Appelle Archives (Anglican)
  • Diocese of Saskatoon Archives (Anglican)
  • Saskatchewan Conference of the United Church of Canada (which includes the Congregational Methodist Church and part of the Presbyterian churches which were combined in 1925), and
• Microfilm copies of some other church records.
• Access to baptismal, marriage and death records is subject to permission of the donors.

Anglican

The Archivist, Trevor J. D. Powell
Diocese of Qu’Appelle Archives
1501 College Avenue
Regina, SK S4P 1B8
CANADA
Telephone: 306-787-4066
Fax: 306-787-1975

Mr. Douglas Bocking
Diocese of Saskatoon Archives
P.O. Box 1965
Saskatoon, SK S7K 3S5
CANADA

Diocese of Saskatchewan Archives
P.O. Box 1088
2030 - 2nd Avenue West
Prince Albert, SK S6V 5S6
CANADA
Telephone: 306-763-2455
Fax: 306-764-5172

Catholic

Regina Archdiocese
2522 Retallack Street
Regina, SK S4T 2L3
CANADA

Gravelbourg Diocese
P.O. Box 690
Gravelbourg, SK S0H lX0
CANADA
Telephone: 306-648-2615

Prince Albert Diocese
1415 - 4th Avenue West
Prince Albert, SK S6V 5H1
CANADA
Telephone: 306-763-2778

Saskatoon Diocese
106 - 5th Avenue North
Saskatoon, SK S7K 2N7
CANADA
Telephone: 306-242-7831

Lutheran

Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada—Saskatchewan Synod

707-601 Spadina Crescent East
Saskatoon, SK S7K 3G8
CANADA
Telephone: 306-244-2474

Manitoba-Saskatchewan District
Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
1927 Grant Drive
Regina, SK S4S 4V6
CANADA

Archives of the Central Canada Synod Lutheran Church in America
c/o Lutheran Theological Seminary
114 Seminary Crescent
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0X3
CANADA

Presbyterian

Clerk of the Synod of Saskatchewan
Presbyterian Church in Canada
c/o First Presbyterian Church
2127 Albert Street
Regina, SK S4P 2V1
CANADA

United Church of Canada

Saskatchewan Conference
United Church of Canada
St. Andrew’s College Library
1121 College Drive
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W3
CANADA
Telephone: 306-966-8983