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How do I research canadian relatives? Can anyone point me in the right direction?

care to put details up in case any of us can help?

For general info -- if you're talking about people born in the last 100 years, the answer is "with great difficulty".

First, BMD records (vital records) are held on a provincial basis. For older records, you need to know which province you are looking in -- and only about half have records on line.

The rule of thumb for most provinces is:
Births are not accessible for 100 years
Marriages are not accessible for about 85 years
Deaths are not accessible for about 75 years

(There are exceptions -- e.g. British Columbia gives online access to deaths that are quite a bit more recent than that.)

If you're looking for living people, your main sources will be google and the telephone directory:

http://www.whitepages.ca/

A few more recent kinds of records can be found. WWII deaths are at the Virtual War Memorial (also at the Commonwealth War Graves commission site). The Canadian Legion's "Last Post" online reports some deaths of servicepeople and former servicepeople back a few years.

The most recent census accessible is 1911 (1916 for western Canada). The free site automatedgenealogy.com has 1901 and 1911. Ancestry has the rest as well.

Sea passenger records outbound from the UK up to 1960 are at FMP

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/passengerListPersonSearchStart.action

If I think of anything else ... ;)

If you do want to give any details we can try to think up possible sources.

I have found out Ethel May Bulley married James Scott in Ontario Canada 1915. She was my grandads sister. I don't know how to find out whether they had children in canada or any other info about them. How can i get more information

Ethel was born in county cork ireland in 1887

Hold on, kay. You've had a huge long thread about this already. Let'snot start all over again, 'k? ;)

One post per topic ... or people will be wasting their time doing what hours were spent doing before ... by me ...

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1177307

familysearch.org have canadian records but canada has a 50 year rule so nothing before then births go up to 1937 in ontario depends where they went in canada as to how much is available online.

its actually about different people. i just wanted ideas of how to go about researching in canada, thats all i am not asking anyone to research anything

thankyou lorraine you have been very helpful

Actually, no, Kay, it's about Ethel May Bulley, who was one of the subjects of that other thread.

I'm afraid that Lorraine's information is probably incorrect. I live in Ontario, and I don't believe disclosure of births in the last 100 years is legal, unless the Mormons have got their hands on religious records.

As I explained in my post, Canada doesn't have any rule for vital records -- those are controlled by the provinces.

(And just so you're forewarned -- if you were to delete that other thread, you would be blacklisted forever by anyone who knew of it! ;) You can very easily go back to it and add a post to bring it back to the top. And btw, sorry, but I've never got any response to my query about my ex-family member's Ontario Scotts ...)

Your best bet is to drill down at:
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html

There are some records on the LDS pilot site:
http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start
and use the Browse our records link.

There's some Ontario BMDs at:
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onvsr/

mgnv, please read the thread I linked to:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1177307&px=1

also

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=1173092

It isn't the first time.

THANKYOU

You're welcome.