Each Canadian province and territory has different laws about birth, marriage and death registrations, how and what information was collected, and when those records are released into the public domain. This presentation will discuss where to find the records and how to access them.
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Thank you Kathryn. will have a lot of work next week with all your info\n\nThank you so much for all the great resources for finding my travelling Canadian ancestors from all the eastern provinces and BC.\n\nThank you, very informative!\n\nthanks\n\nThanks for the great webinar.\n\nThanks, excellent\n\nThe start dates, and availability dates are great to have in such an organized format. Will save me hours of 'wondering' and wasted searching..... thank you.\n\nThis was a terrific presentation, very informative and fascinating; the information shared was clear and very helpful. I'm looking forward to re-watching the video. Thanks so much!!!\n\nThis was a whirlwind of useful information. The presenter was very knowledgeable.\n\nThis was loaded with great info. Thanks\n\nVery clear and precise. Good visual examples.\n\nVery fast paced but thorough.\n\nVery good overview, covering a lot of ground in a short time.\n\nVery helpful -- a lot of information was covered since Canada is so vast. Thank you!\n\nVery helpful and informative\n\nVery helpful information. Explains why my great-grandfather, who was born 3 months before Confederation, does not have a birth record that I've found. Thanks for the advice to search church records.\n\nVery helpful to hear about the various sites for finding records.\n\nVery helpful! It's good that we can replay it once the recording is uploaded. Lots of good info for us Canadians!!\n\nVery informative, since I have relatives in 3 of the provinces!\n\nVery informative-thanks!\n\nVery knowledgeable, great presentation, especially relating the records to the formation of Canada which is critical when researching. Thanks!\n\nVery thorough look at Canada. A lot to cover in 50 minutes! Thanks for a great presentation.\n\nVery thorough. Really helped that she went province by province. Very sad to know how expensive Saskatchewan records are.\n\nTwo thumbs up for sure!!\n\nVery well done and organized. I would just suggest to the presenter for future that Newfoundland is pronounced correctly with accent on the last syllable.\n\nWell done and i got a number of tips to deal with some of my stonewalls.\n\nThanks Kathryn\n\nWell organized and quite thorough!\n\nWell organized and very helpful\n\nwent a little too fast, could have slowed down a bit. Very good info. Thank you\n\nwish the dates of BMD's were included in the syllabus otherwise very good webinar - I will watch this again.\n\nWonderful information! \n\nWonderful new information that is very pertinent. Very easy to follow and take notes. Thank you It makes me grateful that the US doesn't have the same year restrictions on obtaining information about family or most of us wouldn't have much in our trees.\n\nwow, lots of information . presented in a concise manner. Many Questions... are there more webinars presented by Kathyrn going to the next step. Also, has she followed the path of BHC ,as to recording their marriages and deaths? Thank you for sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge.
Gave me the info I was looking for -- on where to find records.\n\nGood brief overview\n\ngood documentation\n\ngood info for my provinces.\n\nGood information. \n\ngood job\n\nGood material. Certainly a wealth of information as always. Keep up the good work.\n\ngood overview\n\nGood overview. A lot of information.\n\nGood overview. Good syllabus.\n\nGood sources Thanks\n\nGreat handout. Good coverage of the whole country. I have ancestors mainly in Ontario, but some moved west to Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and B.C. \n\nGreat helpful Canadian information! Well presented!\n\nGreat info for Canadian sources! Thank you\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information\n\nGreat information of places to find records.\n\nGreat information! Well-researched!\n\nGreat information! Would like more info Quebec-specific and crossings to U. S. Thank you!!!\n\ngreat overview and perfect format for 50 minutes\n\nGreat overview of sources for each providence. \n\nGreat presentation\n\nGreat thank you\n\nGreat to get so much info about records in Canada, this should help me find the mystery relatives.\n\nHave ancestors from Canada and had no idea how to find their records! This is very timely and most helpful! has saved me weeks/ months of fruitless searches! \n\nThank you\n\nGreat presentation. Good information, especially since there is such diversity in each Canadian province. thank you\n\nThank you, I heard most of it and it was very informative and simple to understand! \n\nI was hoping for more information on Ontario, but I understand that would be difficult when trying to cover all of Canada. If possible, I would prefer to hear more specific in-depth topics, such as focusing on a single province at a time, although I understand why that might not be possible. Otherwise the speaker was excellent, and the information was presented in a concise and clear manner. A pleasure to listen to, thank you.\n\nInteresting\n\nJust starting to do some genealogy research in Canada; perfect timing and information to help me get started. Thank you.\n\nKathryn did as well as she could, it seems, with the limited time of the webinar. Thanks for commenting about Ontario being shut down for COVID and other things like that!\n\nKathryn is a fabulous presenter and I'm always interested in Canadian content to make my research journey less challenging.\n\nKathryn provided lots of great information on which bmd records are extant in each province, and where to look for original records. :)\n\nLearned some great facts about records. Can now search other ways!\n\nVery clear and concise speaker considering the amount she had to cover in a short time was great!\n\nlots of good info. Love all the URL's Great job\n\nLots of great hints to find information from Canada\n\nLots of great information \n\nLots of great information and the handout will be very useful.\n\nLots of information in a short amount of time. Hope to get the syllabus at the FTWebinar site..\n\nlots of useful, concise info in a short amount of time Thank You!\n\nLoved all the details about dates for each province. Am going to need to watch this one again!\n\nNow I have some ideas where to find records in New Brunswick. Great Job!\n\nPacking lots of information that I'm sure is very helpful to most researchers doing research in Canada; I am about to start researching Canadian records and now realize I need to collect more basic data before I launch into it!\n\nPresenter did a great job. I like how she defined each region clearly. \n\nProvided useful info.\n\nreminded me of sources for missing information I need to continue my research\n\nSo clear and well prepared.\n\nSo much fun.\n\nSo much information, will listen agin, and maybe again. Thank you.\n\nSo precise and concise Wonderful\n\nSoooooo much information!!! Thank you!\n\nsound kept cutting out. Otherwise excellent.\n\nSyllabus a terrific guide to records.
A definite replay is needed! Great information!\n\nA fabulous webinar and so full of information! Will definitely need to watch the recording.\n\na lot of information in a short time, but glad to have access to replay later THANKS\n\nA new area of information I've wanted to know more about. I will go through this again. More Canadian, British Columbia specific, webinars would be of interest!\n\nA wealth of information. Thanks!\n\nAlthough I arrived late, the information regarding vital statistics records available in each Province was very detailed and useful. Thank you\n\nawesome info\n\nCanadian good info from Katherine \n\nenjoyed this session.\n\nExcellent\n\nExcellent !\n\nExcellent facts and timelines for available records\n\nExcellent information - very helpful to know where to look for records\n\nExcellent overview of Canada's BMD records.\n\nexcellent overview of locality record availability for Canada\n\nExcellent overview with a bit of history thrown in. And the syllabus is worth the price of membership.\n\nExcellent presentation and information. I am working my Canadian family tree now! So helpful. \n\nExcellent presentor and presentation !!! \n\nThank you for this AND for the syllabus !!! \n\nExcellent, very comprehensive.\n\nExcellent, well organized, very thorough.\n\nExplanations were easy to follow and my silent questions seemed to blend right into her discussion, thank you!\n\nExtremely helpful information for determing the availability and location of records in Canada.\n\nFantastic overview. Dates documents are available in each province is very helpful! Thanks