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  • Canadian Expeditionary Force
  • Index of 600,000+ Canadians enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I, 1914-1918
    1. Name
    2. Regiment Number
    3. Reference Number
  • British Home Children
  • 100,000+ children were sent from Great Britain to Canada from during the child emigration movement between 1869 and 1930.


    • Marge Reid's Genealogy Home Pages Index (there are other PEI sites in this category)
  • Prince Edward Island Data Pages:
    1. Irish born in PEI before 1846
    2. Marriage Records - St. Jacques Church, Egmont Bay 1855-1900.
    3. Baptism Records - St Jacques Church 1855-1900.
    4. Burial Records - St Jacques Church.
    5. 1881 Census
    6. Covehead/Corran Ban/Tracadie (Roman Catholic) marriage records


    • Lunenburg County GenWeb (Nova Scotia)
  • 1770 Census of Lunenburg County
    1. Number of Men, Boys, Women and Girls
    2. Number of people in each family
    3. Religion
    4. Country of Origin
    5. Livestock
    6. Produce



  • Claude Duguay’s Abstracts of Burial Records: St. Francis Xavier, Manitoba, 1834-1865
    1. Deceased
    2. Witnesses
    3. Mothers
    4. Spouses




  • inGeneas
  • The inGeneas database contains Canadian passenger and immigration records from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.
    1. Record Number
    2. Surname
    3. Given Name
    4. Year
    5. Source
    6. Description of what is on the passenger list


    • Ulster American Folk Park
  • Emigration Database
  • “The Emigration Database is a computerized collection of primary source documents on Irish emigration to North America (USA & Canada) in the 18th and 19th centuries. It contains a variety of original material including emigrant letters, newspaper articles, shipping advertisements, passenger lists, official government reports, family papers and extracts from books and periodicals. The project is on-going with documents being added on a regular basis. It is a vital research resource for historians, teachers, students and genealogists with an interest in Irish-America.
  • The Database can be accessed in the Library of the Centre for Emigration Studies at the Ulster American Folk Park and in the Local Studies Departments of the Education and Library Boards in Armagh, Ballymena, Ballynahinch, Belfast, Enniskillen, Londonderry and Omagh.” There is an online contact form.


  • France's Federation of Genealogy: Fichier Origine
  • The database of vital records of French and foreign immigrants who settled in Quebec from the beginnings of the colony to 1865.
    1. Migrant
    2. Birth/Baptism
    3. Town
    4. Parents
    5. Reference
    6. Notes


  • Emigration Site for Finnmark County, Norway
  • Surname index of emigration from the following towns in Norway, to USA and Canada, 1867-1925:
  • Alta, Berlevåg, Bugøynes, Finnmark, Gamvik, Hammerfest, Hjerpenes, Honningsvåg, Karasjok, Kautokeino, Kjøllefjord, Lebesby, Loppa, Monselv, Måsøy, Nesseby, Porsanger, Sør-Varanger, Tana, Vadsø, Varanger, Vardø, Øksfjord.
    1. First name
    2. Middle name
    3. Surname
    4. Age or born
    5. Year of Emigrated
    6. From
    7. No.
  • Transcription from Vadsø and North-Varanger Townships' church books
    1. First Name
    2. Surname
    3. Date of Birth
    4. Status
    5. Date Leaving Vadso Area
    6. Where to
    7. Notes


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    Research for the original information found in the ISTG COMPASS was conducted by Harriet Rosch and the late Donna Jackson. The ISTG Compass began to guide researchers in September 1999, and is an invaluable research site for genealogists.


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