In addition to the websites of the record repositories, the following sites may provide helpful information and access to relevant records.
Library of Congress American Memory Project: Upper Midwest Collection
www.perseus.tufts.edu/cache/perscoll_AmMem-lhbum.html
This site includes digitized copies of several volumes of the publications of the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, including the Mackinac Register of baptisms, marriages and burials (1695 to 1821) in volumbes 18 and 19. The entire collection is searchable.
Carolyne’s Genealogy Helper
www.angelfire.com/tx/carolynegenealogy/
This site is maintained by a professional genealogist in Texas. She specializes in native North American Genealogy and has several helpful resources on her website, including a transcript of the Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, 1702–1755 containing many Mi’kmaq marriages (choose “Native American Genealogy”, then scroll down to “Mi’kmaq” and choose the links for Mi’kmaq births, marriages, deaths and baptisms in Nova Scotia.
Ancestry.ca
www.ancestry.ca
This subscription site includes a wide range of digitized and indexed records including:
1911 Census for Canada
1901 Census for Canada
1851 Census for New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
1851/2 Census for Canada West and Canada East (Ontario and Quebec)
Ontario civil registrations of births, 1869–1909
Ontario civil registrations of marriages, 1869–1924
Ontario civil registrations of deathas, 1869–1934
Ontario county registrations of marriages, 1858–1869 (index only)
A vast collection (Drouin) of Quebec and Northern Ontario Roman Catholic church registers (not indexed online, but last few pages in each register generally include a hand-written index)
AutomatedGenealogy
www.automatedgenealogy.com
This is a volunteer-driven census indexing project. So far they have indexed the entire 1911 and 1901 Censuses of Canada, one third of the 1851 Censuses of Canada West and Canada East, and two thirds of the censuses of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia.
Maliseet & Micmac Vital Statistics From New Brunswick Church Records
www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/Maliseet/ChurchRecords/
This database contains records of the baptisms, marriages, and deaths of Maliseet and Mi’kmaq people living in New Brunswick. It brings together in one place church records from many parishes, facilitating an area of historical, biographical, and genealogical research which is difficult to pursue and often overlooked.
The collection includes records dating from the 1700s to 1919. The church registers represented are those known to contain a significant number of records pertaining to Aboriginal people. The collection is also limited to registers microfilmed by the Public Archives of New Brunswick and open to the public.
The database was originally published in book form as Maliseet & Micmac Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Church Records. Fredericton, Places:New Brunswick: Micmac-Maliseet Institute, 1998.
Mi’kmaq Resource Centre
http://mrc.uccb.ns.ca/default.htm
This site provides transcripts of the Mi’kmaq entries in the Nova Scotia censuses of 1871, 1881, 1891 and a transcript of the baptism, marriage and burials of Mi’kmaq in the Catholic parish registers of St. Pierre and Miquelon islands.
www.ucs.mun.ca/~hrollman/
This site provides a huge amount of valuable information about the various religious denominations that operated missions in Newfoundland and Labrador, including transcripts of many important documents and links to other helpful records.
Newfoundland Grand Banks Genealogy Site
http://ngb.chebucto.org
This volunteer-run site includes transcripts and indexes for a great many records including census, church records, directories, cemeteries, land records, court records, vital statistics, wills, newspaper transcripts.
Ontario GenWeb Census Project—Middlesex County
http://onmiddle.com/census.htm
This volunteer-run site provides links to transcripts of the following censuses of reserves in the county:
Chippewa / Muncey Reserve Census 1861
Chippewa Indian Reserve Census 1911 (Caradoc township)
Muncey Indian Reserve Census 1911 (Caradoc Township)
Oneida Indian Reserve Census 1911 (Delaware Township)
Sneakers
www3.sympatico.ca/sneakers/genealogy.htm?
This private site has a huge collection trasncribed records pertaining to Métis people of the Sault Ste. Marie, Michilimackinac and Penetanguishene region of Ontario. These include petitions, censuses, paylists, church records and gravestone inscriptions.
The Island Register
www.islandregister.com
This volunteer-run site includes complete transcripts of PEI census records, plus miscellaneous wills, land records, bible records, etc.
PRDH: Programme de recherche en démographie historique: The Research Program in Historical Demography
www.genealogy.umontreal.ca/en/leprdh.htm
The PRDH is a vast project to reconstruct the population of Québec from the French founders in 1621 up to 1800. The database now includes information from all surviving Roman Catholic parish registers up to 1799, many burial records up to 1850, and a few additional records including census returns, notarial records and .
Basic searching and information is free to all. More detailed information can be accessed through a subscription to the site (fee is based on how much information you access).
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