MyHeritage yesterday announced it has published online its 1931 Canada Census census collection, which includes “a complete new index” that it created.
Searching this collection on MyHeritage is free. To view the records or to save records to your family tree, you’ll need a Data or Complete subscription plan.
In a couple of cases, when I looked for relatives in Toronto and Owen Sound, Ontario, their residence appeared incorrectly as Basteds, Timiskaming South, Ontario, Canada on the results page. Despite this error, my relatives still appeared among the top five results. Still, it’s a hiccup I hope MyHeritage corrects soon.
Learn more about the 1931 Canada Census in MyHeritage’s blog post.
There’s still no sign of when the 1931 Canada Census will be transcribed for Library and Archives Canada’s website to make it searchable, but one would expect it to happen before the end of the year. Right now, it can only be browsed by province, district and sub-district. Access will continue to be free on the Canadian archives’ website after the transcription process has been completed.
