Only a couple of months after the expected date, Ancestry has added Ontario marriage registrations for 1938. Ontario birth registrations for 1914 may soon follow.
Last year, Ancestry uploaded the Ontario marriage records for 1937 in February, along with a new year of birth registrations.
FamilySearch’s collection of Ontario marriage records, 1869-1927, and birth records, 1869-1912, are available to search for free.
Ancestry is providing free access to all of its Canadian collections this long weekend, ending Monday, May 18, so this may be a good time to explore. Registration is required.
Many public libraries continue to provide free at-home access to worldwide records on Ancestry as well. My own library has given up providing an end date to this service. Now, they simply say the service is available from home.
So, what else do we have to look forward to this year?
British Columbia
In June, we may see British Columbia registrations of marriages from 1944 and deaths registrations from 1999 on the BC Archives website, although the pandemic may delay the release.
The next time a new collection of BC birth registrations will be released is 2024 — 120 years after the 1904 births were registered. In 2004, the British Columbia Vital Statistics Act added an extra 20 years to the release of births, extending it to 120 years.
Nova Scotia
In normal times, we would have expected the Nova Scotia Archives to make available on its website this year births in 1919, marriages in 1944, and deaths in 1969. It’s hard to know if the archivists will manage to be on schedule. I expect not.
