Despite the pandemic, BC Archives has released new marriages and death records for the time frame expected.
The BC Archives expected to receive from the BC Vital Statistics Agency at the end of March the annual release of death (1999) and marriage (1944) records, and it appears that must have happened.
A few days ago, the provincial archives made available on its website deaths for 1999 and marriages for 1944.
On the BC Archives website, researchers will now find marriages from 1871 to 1944 and deaths from 1872 to 199.
As for birth records, 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. Until then, we’ll have to be satisfied with the online birth records from 1854 to 1903.
Don’t we wish all provincial archives were like the one in British Columbia?
