Genealogy Resources

1)     Local

Saskatoon Genealogy Society

 meets monthly Sept-June 2^nd Wed. of month Albert Community Centre

Saskatchewan Archives - Murray Building UofS Campus, Homestead Records, Ship Lists, etc.

Murray Memorial Library UofS Campus:

Special Collections Books (3^rd floor)

Microfilm Canadian Institute for Historical Microproductions (CIHM)(2^nd floor)

                     The New Brunswick (UNB) CIHM Database Gateway searches the UNB Library holdings of the Early Canadiana Research Collection of microfiche published by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microproductions (CIHM). This is an experimental Z39.50 gateway service accessing the UNICORN server at UNB. The unique CIHM microfiche number in each record can be used to retrieve the microfiche in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries collection located in microfiche filing cabinets in the Maps and Microforms Room on the Second Floor of the Main Library. The CIHM Early Canadiana Collection of microfiche contains reproductions of more than sixty-five thousand titles of early Canadiana monographs and periodicals. These are primarily Canadian imprints.   Mode of access: World Wide Web via the Internet

 

Early Newpapers of Canadian and American cities (2^nd floor)

Loyalist Applications for compensation to the British Government (2^nd floor)

Special notes and files of Early Canadians (microfilm on 2^nd floor)

Maps (2^nd floor)

 

Saskatoon Public Library –

Books,

Canadian Census microfilm earliest to 1901

Old Index for all census prior to 1901

New Index for 1901

Use index to find microfilm # required, fill out sheet with microfilm #’s required and give to assistants at the Reference Desk. Film will be retrieved and brought to the small island near the microfilm readers. Now do your searching. Twenty-five cents/page for hardcopy.

Ontario:  Birth, Marriages, and Death Index.

Index microfilms found in storage drawers near microfilm readers

When item found in index, record code then look-up film number from special book and make order request from Ontario Archives (interlibrary loan) Next months program will explain details.

Newspapers on microfilm

Interlibrary loan of material

Community History Books (located on 2^nd floor)

 

LDS FHC (Family History Centre) 1429 10^th St. E.

 

2)     Provincial

Saskatchewan Genealogy Society Library in Regina 1870 Lorne St., Regina

Regina Public Library

Saskatchewan Archives

 

3)     Adjacent Provinces - Alberta

 AGS (Alberta Genealogy Society)

 Prince of Wales Armories, #116 10440 - 108 Ave., Edmonton, AB

Open 3^rd Saturday of Month (check schedule on internet) Run by volunteers so check when it is open. This Library houses material for several different groups, AGS, Germans from Russia, etc.

LDS FHC Edmonton, medium size, medium sized library (open weekends).

LDS FHC Calgary, 2021-17^th Ave. S.W., top quality, very large library.

Calgary LDS FHC has the Index for the Hamburg Ship Lists (Direct and Indirect).

Many different microfilms are on permanent loan to this library. Very good source of material if you go to Calgary.

 

4)     National

 Canadian Archives

 

5)     International

USA

            European

 

6)     INTERNET

            Major source of data from online Databases, LDS, GENWEB, etc.

 

            URL’s

http://www.CyndisList.com/

http://www.usgenweb.org/

http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/cngenwebe.html

http://www.rootsweb.com/

http://www.familytreemaker.com/allsearch.html

http://familysearch.org/

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/4835/sask/tips.html

etc