Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter this morning had some very good news for Canadian researchers. The clip below reports on the release of the 1926 Census of the Canadian Prairie Provinces.
"According to the Library and Archives Canada web site the 1926 Census of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, which contains over 45,000 pages, is being transferred to Library and Archives Canada. Over the summer, Statistics Canada concluded an agreement with FamilySearch to index the thousands of census entries so Canadians can find the material on the Library and Archives Canada website easily.
FamilySearch has completed the indexing and is now proceeding with quality control. On December 1, FamilySearch will send the proposed index to Library and Archives Canada to will start building a new database. The Census database will consist of a free searchable index as well as the digitized images from the 1926 Census of Prairie Provinces.
Library and Archives Canada expects to have an online database by March 2019."
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