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Newfoundland
Research Outline
   

Table of Contents
Records Of The Family History Library
Research Strategy
Archives And Libraries
Census
Church Records
Directories
Emigration And Immigration
Genealogy
History
Land And Property
Military Records
Newspapers
Periodicals
Probate Records
Societies
Vital Records
For Further Reading
Comments And Suggestions

VITAL RECORDSLook this term up in the glossary.


Birth, death, and marriage records from 1891 on are available from:

Vital Statistics Division
Department of Health
Confederation Building
P.O. Box 4750
St. John’s, NF A1C 5T7
CANADA
Personal searches of these records are not permitted, and the registry staff will do only limited searches for each genealogical request.


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FOR FURTHER READING


Bracken, Susan, ed. Canadian Almanac & Directory. (FHL book 971 E4ca; Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman Ltd., Annual.)

Canadiana Company Limited, a subsidiary of Grolier Society of Canada Limited. Encyclopedia Canadiana. Ottawa, 1957. (FHL book 030.71 En 19.)

Jonasson, Eric. The Canadian Genealogical Handbook. 2nd ed. Winnipeg: Wheatfield Press, 1978. (FHL book 971 D27j.) Indexed.

Major Genealogical Records Sources for Canada. Genealogical Research Papers, Series B, no. 3, rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Genealogical Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1976. (FHL book 929.1 G286gs ser. B no.3; Fiche 6010027.)

Mémoires de la Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française. Montreal: Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française, 1944–. (FHL book 971 C4s; vol. 10, pages 179–188; vol. 11, pages 69–85.)

Punch, Terrence M., ed., Genealogist's Handbook for Atlantic Canada Research. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1989. (FHL book 971.5 D27pt.)

Tracing Your Ancestors in Canada. 12th edition. Ottawa: National Archives of Canada, 1997. (FHL book 971 D27k.)


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COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS


The Family History Library welcomes additions and corrections that will improve future editions of this outline. Please send your suggestions to:

Publications Coordination
Family History Library
35 N. West Temple Street
Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3400
USA
We appreciate the archivists, librarians, and others who have reviewed this outline and shared helpful information.

Paper publication: Second edition October 1997. English approval: 10/97.

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