12 November 2020

Ancestry adds Canada, Newspapers.com Obits Index, 1800s-current

This database consists of facts extracted from obituaries found in 87 Canadian newspapers on Newspapers.com™. 

The major papers are:

Victoria Times (-Colonist), 1885–2014
Vancouver Province, 1894–2020
Calgary Herald, 1888–2020
Edmonton Journal, 1903–2020
Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, 1902 - 2020
Regina Leader-Post, 1883–2020
Windsor Star, 1893 - 2020
Ottawa Citizen, 1846 - 2020
Ottawa Journal, 1885 - 1980
Montreal Gazette, 1857–2020

The 30,877,928 records count the deceased and those mentioned in the obit separately.

As shown by the bar chart for the number of entries in the decennial years, the database is particularly valuable toward the end of the 20th century when official records are not usually available.



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1 comment:

  1. Rick Roberts, GlobalGenealogy.com13 November, 2020 10:09

    Went to check this out using my 'Canadian Deluxe Membership' at Ancestry.ca for DEVLIN obituaies published in Ontario, Canada. Index worked fine, but as soon as I clicked for the document was informed that I have to upgrade to 'World Deluxe Membership' to be able to access the info.

    https://www.ancestry.ca/search/collections/62226/?name=_devlin&event=_ontario-canada_5007&count=50



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