BC Archives has made available on its website this year’s release of marriage and death records.
Family historians, with relatives who lived in British Columbia, can now search marriage registrations from 1948 and death registrations from 2003 in the provincial archives’ Genealogy section.
You can now freely search the indexes to births (1854-1903), marriages (1871-1948), deaths (1872-2003), colonial marriages (1859-1872), and baptisms (1836-1888). In some cases, you can click on a link to see the digitized microfilm image of the original document.
To help navigate the vital statistics database, BC Archives created a guide.
As for BC birth registrations, the next time a new collection will be released is 120 years after the 1904 births were registered. That suggests we may see them in 2024 or perhaps early next year. Or perhaps I’m just an optimist.
