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Saint John and Its Neighbourhoods: The Past Online
New Brunswick History
These links were originally developed in conjunction with an historical and genealogical workshop held on 16 June 2004. The records, sources and resources on this page should not be considered in isolation and are intended to be exemplar rather than definitive. This list does not then, necessarily, include many of the well-known genealogical lists, services and products available on the web. It was designed to illustrate the possibilities.
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- See also: New Brunswick History
- See also: Saint John and Its Neighbourhoods: The Past Online
- AVITAS, Directory of Canadian Genealogical Resources, Library and Archives Canada
- Browse by Product Type, Library and Archives Canada
- Search Archives, Canadian Archival Information Network
- Early Canadiana Online
- CIHM Database
- Canada's Local Histories Online, Our Roots
- Virtual Exhibits, Archives Canada
- Our Future Our Past, The Alberta Heritage Digitization Project
- Genealogy Home, Vancouver Public Library
- Nova Scotia Virtual Archives
- Search the Collection, Saskatchewan Archives Board
- Family History Research, Saskatchewan Archives Board
- National Archives and Records Administration, US
- Resources for Genealogists, NARA, US
- Library of Congress Collections
- American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
- Northwest Digital Archives
- Online Archive of California
- Connecticut State Library Digital Collections
- Florida Memory Project
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Databases, Illinois State Archives
- ISL: Databases, Indiana State Library
- Digital Collections, New York Public Library
- Ohio Memory Project
- Cleveland Memory Project
- Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, University of Virginia Library
- National Archives, UK
- Online Records, digitised collections of the National Archives, UK
- Family History, National Records of Scotland
- Digital Archive, Scottish Archive Network
- General Registry Office, Northern Ireland
- Discovery, find records from the National Archives and other archives across the UK
- Genealogy, Danish State Archives
- Family History, State Library of Queensland
Atlases, Maps, Gazetteers
- See also: New Brunswick History: Atlases, Maps, Gazetteers
- Using Maps in Genealogy, USGS
- W.H. Pugsley Collection of Early Canadian Maps, McGill
- Panoramic Maps, 1847-1925, Library of Congress, includes the US and Canada
- A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick [microform], William F. Ganong, Royal Society of Canada, 1896
- A monograph of the cartography of the province of New Brunswick [microform], William F. Ganong, Royal Society of Canada, 1897
- National Atlases, American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
- United States Board on Geographic Names, USGS
- Atlas of Historical Country BoundariesNewberry Library
- Historic Indiana Maps, Center for Digital Scholarship, IUPUI
- Historic Indiana Atlases, Center for Digital Scholarship, IUPUI
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography
- Biographical sketches of loyalists of the American Revolution [microform]: with an historical essay, Lorenzo Sabine
- Biographical review ..., multiple volumes and places from the Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston
- Biographical review [microform] : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the province of Nova Scotia, Harry Piers, Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1900
- New England Historical and Genealogical Register, full-text, searchable, archive.org
- Men of Massachusetts : a collection of portraits of representative men in business and professional life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston: 1903
- Who Was Where, Canadian directories collection, searchable, Library and Archives Canada
- Hutchinson Directories, 1865-1868 (New Brunswick)
- Lovell Directory, 1871 (New Brunswick)
- McAlpine’s Nova Scotia Directory, 1907-08
- Halton's Historical Directories, [1855-1891] (Ontario)
- Hutchinson's Prince Edward Island Directory, 1864
- Lovell's Prince Edward Island Directory, 1871 Index
- McAlpine's Prince Edward Island Directory, 1880 - 1881
- Digital Library of Historical Directories, "nineteenth and early twentieth century local and trade directories from England and Wales", University of Leicester
- Colonial Secretary Papers, 1788-1825, New South Wales, Australia
- Colonial Archives Database, Canada
- Government Records Finding Aids, New Brunswick
- Government Administrative Histories Online, Nova Scotia
- Access to Archival Databases, NARA
- Colonial Connecticut Records, full-text, searchable, 1636-1776
- Online Indexes, Indiana Commission on Public Records
- Archives of Maryland Online, full-text, searchable, acts, proceedings, judicial records, etc., 1637 forward
- DSpace [electronic repository], State Library of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts Archives Collection Database (1629-1799)
- Inventories of Processed Record Series, Utah
- See also: Newspapers
- Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society, archive.org
- Acadiensis, [1901-1908], tables of contents
- New Brunswick Magazine, [1898-1899, 1904], tables of contents
- New England Historical and Genealogical Register, full-text, years vary, via archive.org
- Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, archive.org
- Historical and genealogical miscellany : data relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey, archive.org
- North Carolina and Genealogical Register, archive.org
- William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Papers, selected full-text, 1891-1919
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- See also: Government Records
- Court Records, New South Wales, Australia
- A Guide to Probate Records at the Archives of Manitoba
- Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835, New Brunswick
- Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, Nova Scotia, 1759-1963
- Ontario Court of Probate and Surrogate
Court Records: Wills and Estate Files - A Pathfinder, Archives of Ontario
- Probate Pathfinder, New York State Archives
- Posey County [Indiana] Circuit Court Records
- Wills and Probate, searchable, payment required for download, National Archives, UK
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Collective Resources
Americas
- Immigration, Library and Archives Canada
- Citizenship and Naturalization Records, Library and Archives Canada
- Naturalization Records, 1915–1951, Library and Archives Canada
- Immigration History Ethnic and Cultural Groups, Library and Archives Canada
- New Brunswick Irish Portal, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
- Wallace Ship List, an online, searchable version of Frederick William Wallace's Record of Canadian Shipping: 1786-1920, Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Canadian Registry List, mostly Canadian registered commercial vessels from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Mills List, "Inland and Coastal Steam and Motor vessels Operating in Canada from 1817 to 1930 (over about 45 feet in length for 19th century vessels and about 60 feet for those between 1900 and 1930)" Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Snider Index, over 1000 articles by C.H.J. Snider collectively known as "Schooner Days", from the Toronto Telegram, 1931 and 1954, Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston
- Ship Registration Index, Library and Archives Canada
- Immigration Records (Ship Passenger Arrival Records), NARA
- Passenger Lists, NARA
- Ellis Island Family History Center, searchable passenger records, user account required
- Naturalization Database Search, Indiana
- Passenger Manifests (1848-1891), Port of Boston, Massachusetts
- Albany County [New York] Naturalization Records, searchable index
Australia
- Naturalisation, National Archives of Australia
- Index to the Naturalization Index, 1834-1903, New South Wales, Australia
- Irish (to Australia) Transportation Records Database, Ireland
- Indexes to Convict Records, New South Wales, Australia
- Convicts and Victims Search, Lincolnshire Convicts transported to Australia, Gibraltar and Bermuda, 1788-1868
- Indexes to Assisted Immigrants, New South Wales
- Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British and Foreign Ports 1852-1899, Public Record Office, Victoria
- Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters, New South Wales, Australia
Europe
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- Land Grants of Western Canada, 1870-1930, Library and Archives Canada
- Index to Land Petitions: Original Series 1783-1918, New Brunswick
- Grantbook Database, 1765-1900, PANB / UNB
- Land Petitions, Nova Scotia petitions 1769-1799 and Cape Breton Island petitions 1787-1843
- Official Federal Land Patent Records Site, US Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908, Bureau of Land Management
- Kentucky Land Patents: County Court Orders Series, Kentucky
- Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys, [prior to 1779; 1786-1874]
- Land records available at State Records, New South Wales, Australia
- Surveyor General's Crown Plans, 1792-1886 , New South Wales, Australia
- Index to the Colonial Secretary's Letters relating to land, 1826-56, New South Wales, Australia
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Australia
Canada
- Ward Chipman, Muster Master's Office (1777-1785), searchable, Library and Archives Canada
- South African War, 1899-1902 - Service Files, Medals and Land Applications, Library and Archives Canada
- Soldiers of the First World War: 1914-1918 , Library and Archives Canada
- Merchant Navy War Dead Registry, Veterans Affairs Canada
- Death Registration of Soldiers, 1941-1947 (RS141C6), Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
United Kingdom and the Commonwealth
United States
- Nationwide Gravesite Locator, US Department of Veterans' Affairs
- Virginia Military Dead, Library of Virginia
- The Valley Forge Muster Roll Project
- Revolutionary War Warrants, Kentucky
- Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, National Parks Service
- Florida Confederate Pensions Application Files
- Official roster of the soldiers of the state of Ohio in the war of the rebellion, 1861-1866 ..., Compiled under direction of the Roster commission. Published by authority of the General Assembly, 1886-1895
- A list of the Union soldiers buried at Andersonville, New York: Tribune Association, 1866
- ABMC Burials and Memorializations, American Battle Monuments Commission
- WWI Service Cards, Florida
- National (US) WWII Memorial
- State-level Lists of Casualties from the Korean Conflict (1951-1957) and of Casualties from the Vietnam Conflict (1956-2006), NARA
- The Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/Missing-in-Action Database, Library of Congress
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- International News Archives on the Web, SLA
- Canadian News Archives on the Web, SLA
- Indexes to Canadian Newspapers, National Library of Canada
- Historical Directory of Newfoundland and Labrador Newspapers
- Chronological Lists of US Newspapers in Microform Available at the Library of Congress: 1940-1989
- US News Archives on the Web, SLA
- US Ethnic Press, Center for Research Libraries
- Civilian Conservation Corp Camp Papers, Center for Research Libraries
- Checklist of Newspaper Titles in the Michigan Historical Collections, University of Michigan
- New York State Newspaper Project, NYS Library
- World Newspaper Archive, Center for Research Libraries
- The British Library Newspapers and Comics
- Checklist of General Strike Newspapers of 1926, British Library
By Geography
- Google News Archive, various titles and runs, searchable
- Database of Vital Statistics from New Brunswick Newspapers, based on work by Daniel F. Johnson
- Fredericton Evening Capital, [1881-1888]
- The Head Quarters [Fredericton], [1844-1868]
- New Brunswick Reporter, [1844-1886]
- Saint John Daily Morning News / Evening News, [1869-1884]
- St John Daily Sun, [1886-1906]
- Saint John Gazette, [1800-1807]
- Halton Hills newspapers [Ontario]
- Saskatchewan News Index, 1884-2000
- Chronicling America, digitized American newspapers, 1836-1922, Library of Congress
- Secession Era Editorials Project, full-text, Furman
- Indianapolis Newspapers Database, 1848-1888, index, Indiana State Library
- [Cambridge, Massachusetts, newspapers], Cambridge Chronicle [1846-1923], Cambridge Press [1887-1889], Cambridge Sentinel [1903-1912] and the Cambridge Tribune [1887-1923]
- Boston Evening Transcript, [1851-1915], later years have a column variously known as "The Genealogical Department" or simply "Genealogical" which ran Mondays and Wednesdays
- Missing Friends, Information Wanted, Boston Pilot
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle, full-text, searchable, 1841-1902
- New York Times, 1996 forward, abstracted content free
- Friend of Man, [1836 - 1842], Cornell University
- The African-American Experience in Ohio 1850-1920, from Ohio newspapers
- Virginia Gazette, indexed, full-text, 1736-1780
- 20th Century Kirkland: From Shingle Mills to Suburbia: Index of The East Side Journal 1918-1975, A Newspaper History of Kirkland, WA, Alan J Stein and Graham Haslam
- Stars and Stripes, 8 February 1918 - 13 June 1919
- Word on the Street, Scottish broadsides, 1650-1910
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- See also: Immigration (Voluntary / Forced)
- Immigration History Ethnic and Cultural Groups, Library and Archives Canada
- Centre d’études acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson
- Metis Scrip Records, Library and Archives Canada
- Mi'kmaq Holdings Resource Guide, Nova Scotia
- Mi'kmaq Portraits Collection, Nova Scotia
- Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Record Group 75, 1793-1989, finding aid, NARA
- Index to the Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory (Dawes), NARA
- African Nova Scotians, Nova Scotia
- Native Born: a brief history of the Black presence in Pictou County [Nova Scotia], Jack Kyte et al., Scott Maritimes Limited, August 1990
- The immigration and settlement of the black refugees of the War of 1812 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, John N. Grant
- The Centennial of the Settlement of Upper Canada by the United Empire Loyalists, 1784-1884 ..., Toronto: Rose Publishing, 1885
- Black Loyalists, Canada's Digital Collections
- Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807- Port Roseway Associates, Library and Archives Canada
- Black Loyalists in New Brunswick, UNB Libraries archived snapshot of http://atlanticportal.hil.unb.ca/acva/blackloyalists/en/petitions/
- New Brunswick Irish Portal, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
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- Index to the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children, State Children's Relief Board; NRS 13362, Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children: Registers of inmates, June 1852-August 1915, Reels 1865-68, New South Wales, Australia
- Index to Petitions for Teachers' Licences & Payment, 1812-1882, RS655, New Brunswick
- Saint John Almshouse Records, New Brunswick
- Brown County [Illinois] Almshouse Registers Index, 1882–1963
- Mercer County [Illinois] Almshouse Registers Index, 1859–1948
- Servitude and Emancipation Records Database, 1722–1863, Illinois
- Morgan County [Illinois] Poor Farm Record Index, 1850–1932
- Indiana Soldiers' and Sailors' Children's Home
- Burial Records, Poorhouse Project, Ulster County, New York
- Virginia Runaways Project
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- Family History [Search Birth and Death Records], New South Wales Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Australia
- British Columbia Cemetery Finding Aid, searchable by name, place, etc.
- Vital Statistics Search Engine, RS141, New Brunswick
- Index to New Brunswick Marriage Bonds, 1810-1932, RS551A, New Brunswick
- Index to Saint John Burial Permits, 1889-1919, RS315A, New Brunswick
- Nova Scotia Historical Vital Statistics
- Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, searchable by name, place, etc.
- Social Security Death Index, ancestry.com
- Social Security Death Index, familysearch.com
- Arizona Genealogy Birth and Death Certificates
- Illinois Death Certificates Database, 1916-1950
- Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900
- Cemetery Search, Kentucky Historical Society
- Maine Death History, search form
- Vital Records (1841-1910), Massachusetts Archives
- Michigan Genealogical Death Indexing System, 1867-1897
- Burial Records, Poorhouse Project, Ulster County, New York
- New York City Death Index, 1891 to 1894 Manhattan only; 1895 to 1897 Manhattan and Brooklyn only; 1898 to 1911 all boroughs
- Notices of Marriage and Deaths of Leading New York Families from 1836-1868, New York Society Library
- Cincinnati Birth and Death Records, 1865-1912, University of Cincinnati
- Cemeteries and Burials, Utah
- Research your family history using the General Register Office, UK
- Marriage Bonds, Wills, etc., National Library of Wales
- General Registry Office, Northern Ireland
- Tasmanian Names Index, Tasmania, Australia
- Censuses, Library and Archives Canada
- Census of Canada 1911, Library and Archives Canada
- Census of Canada 1901, Library and Archives Canada
- Provincial Summary for New Brunswick, Automated Genealogy, 1901 Census Transcription Project
- Census, Assessment and Poll Tax Records 1767-1827, Nova Scotia
- 1901 Census of England and Wales Online, UK
- USGenWeb Project
- Maryland State Archives Census Indexes, 1776, 1778, 1870, 1880
- Index to the 1841 Census, New South Wales, Australia
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