The Provincial Archives of New Brunswick recently added more than 12,000 birth records for 1922 to its website, along with more than 12,000 newspaper articles published during the First World War.
This latest year of birth records includes 621 “Late Registrations of Births.”
The Index to Provincial Registrations of Births 1870 – 1922 can be searched for free on the Archives’ website.
The index provides the name of the child, sex, date and location of birth, parents’ names, and microfilm number.
In the case of births from 1870 to 1919, these records have been digitized and are available on the Archives’ website.
For births in 1920, 1921 and 1922, however, the Archives has not been able to add the digital images of the actual records, but is working to do so and will provide updates when there is a change to this situation.
Civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths was required in New Brunswick in 1887. Prior to that there was no requirement to record births nor a system in place to collect and preserve such information.
New Brunswick Great War Project
The Archives also continues to digitize newspaper articles for its New Brunswick Great War Project, and announced at the end of March it had added 12,063 newspaper articles that appeared in the following newspapers:
Carleton Sentinel, Woodstock
Carleton Observer, Hartland
Le Moniteur Acadien, Shediac
St Croix Courier, St. Stephen
The Observer, Hartland
There are now 116,986 newspaper articles available from 13 newspapers. The other provincial newspapers are: Kings County Record (Sussex), St. John Standard, Daily Gleaner (Fredericton), the Campbellton Graphic, the Daily Telegraph and the Sun (Saint John), the Daily Times (Moncton), the North Shore Leader (Newcastle), and the Tribune (Campbellton).
The New Brunswick Great War Project is an ongoing program, created by the provincial archives to preserve and illustrate a collection of sources related to the province’s commitment to the First World War. Its principal aim is to provide researchers and genealogists with the foundation for a better understanding of the relationship between war and society.
Articles in the project range in date from 1914 to 1920 and cover a number of important wartime issues. The largest category of clippings details the extent of New Brunswick’s military contribution to the Great War, from recruiting to the publication of personal letters and the twice-daily casualty list. Other categories include charitable fundraising, politics, economic expansion, the role of women and children, and the influence of religion.
Learn more about the project and how to search it in the blog post, New Brunswick Great War Project — a research tool for genealogists and historians.
