Alberta Research

Our Canadian members know that vital records research in Alberta has been difficult. Nancy Archibald reports that this has recently changed. Her message follows:


The Alberta Provincial Archives has just released Birth, Death, and Marriage record Registries. They have not indexed individually, but they are searchable by alphabetical lists and year. Once you get the number from the list and know the year of the event you can order documents that show more detail from Alberta Provincial Archives. This is pretty clear on the website. (If the year is before about 1914 on the death records, there is a code with letters. There is a sheet that will let you know what letter represents what year.) If you make a mistake they will email you and let you know what you have done wrong. If you do a large number of requests in one day they will bunch them so you don't have to pay so much for shipping and handling. It is a good idea to call to make sure. It is $3.00 in Alberta and $0.35 per copy. The link to Alberta Provincial Archives is below.

http://provincialarchives.alberta.ca/how-to/find-birth-marriage-death-records/request-form/default.aspx


Thanks for the information, Nancy!